Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-01-12
Buyer: National Transport Authority
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72212461 | 72212480 | 72600000
Submission deadline: 2018-02-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Authority is seeking to appoint a supplier for the provision of Business Intelligence Development Services to support its Business Intelligence function.
The aim of Business Intelligence function within the Authority is to provide high quality, robust, repeatable, maintainable automated data to all users. This will be achieved by acquiring data from various data sources; integrating the data where possible and presenting the data in formats the users can understand and which enables them to extract maximum value.
The BI function manages the extraction of data from source, the transformation of the data in accordance with business rules and loading of data into the BI Data Warehouses. The BI function also presents this data to the user via appropriate visualisations and reporting tools.
The Authority is seeking to appoint a supplier for the provision of Business Intelligence Development Services to support its Business Intelligence function.
The aim of Business Intelligence function within the Authority is to provide high quality, robust, repeatable, maintainable automated data to all users. This will be achieved by acquiring data from various data sources; integrating the data where possible and presenting the data in formats the users can understand and which enables them to extract maximum value.
The BI function manages the extraction of data from source, the transformation of the data in accordance with business rules and loading of data into the BI Data Warehouses. The BI function also presents this data to the user via appropriate visualisations and reporting tools.
The scope of the services required is to develop solutions as necessary to acquire data from source and present that data to the business. This will include, but may not be limited to, the development of the Extract, Transform and Load processes from source systems into the BI Data Warehouse, the modelling and development of any new Data Warehouses and/or Data Marts, and the development of the data visualisations and reports.
The contract may be renewed annually up to a maximum of 24 months after the end of the initial period. Factors to be taken into account in considering an extension of the contract will include (but may not be limited to) service requirements, performance and continued funding availability.
The Contracting Authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is postponed or cancelled. All costs incurred by interested parties in participating in this competition must be borne by them.
Any contract award will be subject to a number of preconditions, including production of a current tax clearance certificate or tax clearance statement from the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. The Contracting Authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageously procured.
As set out in SI nº 131/2010 European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utilities Undertakings) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (in particular Regulation 7 thereof).

Eligibility requirements: As set out in the tender documents.