Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-23
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000
Submission deadline: 2019-08-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
ESB is requesting expressions of interest from suitable vendors for the supply and implementation of a robotics process automation platform and Automation Services. ESB has a large IT application landscape including Microsoft Windows and Server environments, Citrix environments and a SAP environment where a substantial number of business processes take place. Any proposed solution would need to be compatible with all of these environments.
ESB is requesting expressions of interest from suitable vendors for the Supply and Implementation of a Robotics Process Automation Platform and Automation Services. ESB has a large IT application landscape including Microsoft Windows and Server environments, Citrix environments and a SAP environment where a substantial number of business processes take place. Any proposed solution would need to be compatible with all of these environments. The IT landscape also includes off-the-shelf applications, heavily-customized applications, bespoke and cloud applications. ESB is seeking to automate processes across the organization and these will range from mission critical to low priority processes. It is estimated that circa 100 processes will be automated during initial 3 year contract and inclusion of additional processes will be negotiated with successful vendor at contract extension stages. The successful vendor will be expected to comply with ESB’s technical, procedural and IT security standards as directed by the organization.
If the applicant is not the owner of the proposed software solution please indicate in your response to Section B.1.5 Contracting Model the preferred contractual/relationship structure.
A full appreciation of the ESB Company can be viewed at the following internet address: http://www.esb.ie/
Resources will be required to be on site in ESB for the implementation of the solution, and available locally and/or remotely during support, training and automation of processes.
Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the qualification questionnaire and at least the top scoring 5 firms will be invited to tender, subject to that number qualifying.
ESB reserves the right to extend the contract for 2 years and again by a further 2 years (potential total contract period up to 7 years).
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 154162
1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) for this competition. Access to this Portal is free of charge. Interested parties must formally register their expression of interest for this competition on eTenders before they can gain access to the PQQ documentation. All information relating to and including the pre-qualification documents, any clarifications and changes will be issued/published via this portal. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;

Eligibility requirements: As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 154162