15912 - ****CANCELLED****Provision of a Financial Management System for the Education and Training Boards (ETB's)
The RFT is cancelled by authority. It is not possible to submit response on this RFT.
The Department of Education and Skills as the Contracting Authority is establishing an Education Shared Business Services (ESBS) centre to deliver shared services to the Education and Training Boards (ETBs). Related to this public procurement competition, is the shared service for the delivery of finance processing which is currently being carried out by 16 ETBs on behalf of 750+ ETB schools/centres. In summary, the Services required comprise of: the provision, configuration, implementation and on-going maintenance and support of a System for the processing of financial activity and reporting for all ETBs. The Contracting Authority requires a fully hosted and managed Financial Management System (FMS) using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The Contracting Authority’s and the ETBs data (both the live and backup copies) must be hosted, stored and processed in Ireland.
In Stage 1 of the Competition, the Contracting Authority invites Candidates:
- to register to attend an information session to be held on Wednesday 23rd January 2019; and
- to respond to the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) by Monday 11th February 2019.