Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-01-22
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72900000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
ESB wishes to invite expressions of interest from suitably qualified companies for the supply and support of additional IT data storage capacity the proposed capacity solution will be deployed on the ESB data centre premises.
ESB wishes to invite expressions of interest from solution providers to supply, implement and support a mid to high end flash storage array capable of managing ESB’s needs.
— provision, implementation and support of a scalable flash storage array with the potential to scale up/out over the next number of years,
— an ability to service urgent onsite requirements in the greater Dublin area within a reasonable timeframe,
ESB retains the right to extend the contract up to 2 years by mutual agreement with the successful tenderer.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
3) The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by Candidates or tenderers;
6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the contract and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to said contract.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process at any time.
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases, it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words "or equivalent" will always be appended.
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
10) At Section II.2.9 we have indicated that 5 will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 5, subject to that number qualifying.


Winner: Triangle Computer Services
Number of bids: 7