Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2022-09-12
Buyer: Enterprise Ireland
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48451000 | 66140000 | 72212451
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: For the provision of Business Process Services to Support Enterprise Ireland Programmes across two (2) Lots
The Contracting Authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two framework agreements for the provision of Business Process Services to Support Enterprise Ireland Programmes.
Existing programmes that fall within the scope of this competition for the provision of Business Process services include:
There are two initial areas of service delivery required under this Framework which are as detailed in Section 4.1:
Enterprise Ireland’s Investment Services Division incorporates an Equity Team, who support Enterprise Ireland’s Investment Committee in processing and addressing consent matters with the overarching objective of safeguarding the commercial rights and obligations of Enterprise Ireland relative to its Equity Instruments. Prior to 2020, Enterprise Ireland’s Equity Team primary “live” equity instruments included:
To supplement the above Equity Instruments, Enterprise Ireland initiated a range of additional supports to help Irish businesses to rebuild after the impact of Covid-19. These supports enabled Irish businesses to stabilise cashflow, adapt their operations and innovate to meet new customer needs.
These liquidity and medium-term financial supports have been delivered under the ‘Sustaining Enterprise Fund’, initially launched in April 2020. The ‘Sustaining Enterprise’ fund allowed for a support package of up to €800,000 to be made available to qualifying companies. This included companies at different stages of development and growth ranging from established companies to small enterprises and start-ups.
Packaged support for Enterprise Ireland clients under the ‘Sustaining Enterprise Fund’ includes a non-repayable grant of up to €200,000 together with a Repayable Advance (“RA”) of up to €600,000.
The objective of the ERI: Stream Two is to support “energy-intensive” manufacturing and internationally traded services companies, who are currently viable but financially vulnerable as a result of additional costs due to exceptionally severe increases in natural gas and electricity prices.
While funding under this measure is awarded by Enterprise Ireland, the Agency proposes to engage in a competitive tendering process to provide the management and administration of this Measure.
This scheme meets all the requirements of the specific categories of aid described in Section 2.1 of the Temporary Crisis Framework for State Aid for measures to support the economy following the aggression against Ukraine by Russia.
The conditions of the Measure, and the length of time the Measure is open to applications, may be modified in line with developments such as updates to EU State aid Regulation, changes in Irish government policy, and the needs of the Irish enterprise base. The provisional details of the Measure are detailed below:
•	Funding will be to mitigate the consequences of the increase in natural gas and electricity costs linked to the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
•	The overall aid per undertaking does not exceed 30% of the eligible costs up to a maximum of €2 million at any given point in time.
•	Aid granted under the ERI Stream Two may be cumulated with aid granted under ERI Stream One provided that a total amount of €2 million is not exceeded.