Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-01
Buyer: Department of Justice and Equality
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72200000 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72261000: Software support services | 72267000: Software maintenance and repair services
Estimated value: 1900000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2017-08-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Provision of Lot 1: R&R Shiny & Support Services, Lot 2: Open Source CRM & Support Services, Lot 3: Alfresco & Support Services. Lot 4: Rapid Application Development, Lot 5: Mobile Framework.
A decision has been made to utilise a number of open source products that will provide reporting and analytical functionality. In addition, the Contracting Authority will require support to install and support the applications over the duration of any contract awarded as well as a Linux OS such as Centos or assistance with RedHat if same is procured separately. This is intended to minimise multiple support teams and allow the most effective resolution of issues.
The Contracting Authority has decided to use R toolkit (an integrated suite of software tools) for data manipulation, statistical analysis, reproducible analysis and graphical display to enhance its Business Intelligence and data mining capabilities.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 3 such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority's obligations at law.
AGS are already using an Open Source CRM as part of their End User Engagement, Data management and analytics portfolio and would like to expand and grow capacity, (...)
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 3 such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority's obligations at law.
AGS have procured Alfresco Enterprise as part of a requirement for Document Management for some specific business areas. It is now the intention to acquire some specific skills and expand the scope of the Enterprise Application to include Workflow and Scanning using established and supported plugins.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 3 such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority's obligations at law.
In the pursuit of a mobile strategy and to further the business penetration into the mobile spheres we are interested in using a Rapid Application Development Platform. The platform will allow forms to be created, linked to services and circulated as Mobile Apps.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 3 such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority's obligations at law.
There are huge productivity and efficiency gains from mobile technology that will assist the Contracting Authority to overcome the following:
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 3 such extension or extensions on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority's obligations at law.
As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 119638.
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3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.

Eligibility requirements: As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 119638.

Award value: 1900000