Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-02-03
Buyer: EP UK Investments Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72224100: Systems implementation planning services | 72253200: Computer systems support services | 72500000 | 72610000: Computer support services
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The successful economic operator will be required to deliver the dedicated private managed cloud infrastructure/servers to the specification stated, within maximum permissible timescales, to ensure that the client(s) can meet their contractual obligations to take on the ‘carved out’ SAP data under a Transfer Services Agreement (TSA) in place with the organisation that EP UKI have acquired the power stations from, namely AES (Global) Ltd, a power generator operating mainly out of North America.
Northern Ireland is the location of the 2 operations in question — however, the SAP hosting services can be provided anywhere within the EU/EEA.
Economic operators are required to confirm that they can deliver a dedicated, private, managed cloud infrastructure/solution to the specification stated below; please confirm that your company is able to meet the 7 elements of this specification:
The contract will be awarded for an initial period of 2 years, with the potential option for the clients to extend (at their sole discretion), for agreed and specified periods, up to a maximum of 7 years in total.
This procurement is being conducted in accordance with the negotiated procedure under the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Regulations).
The procedure to be followed for this tender process is the negotiated procedure with a prior call for competition (Regulation 47).
Economic operators who wish to participate in this procurement are required to provide details of their contact point, together with an email address and telephone number by email to andrew.jarvis@epuki.co.uk and ben.thomas@epuki.co.uk in order to receive clarification responses. It is the responsibility of each economic operator to register in this manner. economic operators who fail to provide their details or register in this manner will not receive any clarifications or updated information provided during the procurement process.
The costs of responding to this process and participation in the process (including any and all negotiations) will be borne by each economic operator.
All discussions and correspondence will be deemed strictly subject to contract until a formal contract is entered into.
The formal contract shall not be binding until it has been signed and dated by the duly authorised representatives of all parties.
There will be a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to all economic operators. The standstill period provides time for unsuccessful bidders to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into. The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (Northern Ireland).


Winner: High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland
Number of bids: 5