Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-23
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72251000: Disaster recovery services | 79430000
Submission deadline: 2018-04-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: ESB requires the provision of these Business Continuity Services in Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX /voice services and BC planning support.
As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.
Applicants may apply for Lot 1, Lot 2 or lot 3 or for all lots. Applicants must state in their application which Lots are being applied for, if the applicant is applying for all lots 3 separate references must be given for each lot.
It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX/voice services and BC planning support.
As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.
Following the closing date the contracting entity will evaluate the responses with a view to selecting a list of suitable candidates to be invited to submit a tender for the framework agreement for each of the lots to which they have qualified. ESB will invite at least the 5 highest scoring applicants for each lot to the tender stage of this competition, subject to that number qualifying.
The duration of the framework agreements will be each for 4 years duration with an option, at the discretion of ESB, to extend for up to a further 36 months in 1 or more increments.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX/voice services and BC planning support.
As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.
Following the closing date the contracting entity will evaluate the responses with a view to selecting a list of suitable candidates to be invited to submit a tender for the framework agreement for each of the lots to which they have qualified. ESB will invite at least the 5 highest scoring applicants for each lot to the tender stage of this competition, subject to that number qualifying.
The duration of the framework agreements will be each for 4 years duration with an option, at the discretion of ESB, to extend for up to a further 36 months in one or more increments.
Please refer to the individual instructions for submission of bids relevant to each tender issued via the system.
It is currently envisaged that the services include PCs, secure storage, details of subscribers, exercising & testing, hot site locations, security /facilities, technical support, telecommunications, MPLS, PABX/voice services and BC planning support.
As well as the work area requirement there is a need for additional support and facilities from the hot-site vendor.

Eligibility requirements: As stated in Procurement Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 131531.