Contract award notice

Information

Published

Date of dispatch of this notice: 22/02/2018

External Reference: 2018-268806

TED Reference: 2018/S 038-083585

Contract award notice

Cached Version

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)

Name and addresses

Wexford County Council
N/A
County Hall
Wexford
Y35 WY93
IE
Contact person: Philip Knight
Telephone: +353 539196243
NUTS code:  IE052 -  South-East
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.etenders.gov.ie

I.2)

Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4)

Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority
I.5)

Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1)

Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)

Title

The Provision of Software and Implementation Services for a Customer Relationship Management Solution for Wexford County Council.
Reference number:  37/CS/2017
II.1.2)

Main CPV code

48445000  -  Customer Relation Management software package
II.1.3)

Type of contract

Services
II.1.4)

Short description

The provision of software and implementation services for a customer relationship management solution for Wexford County Council.
II.1.6)

Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.7)

Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT:  343280.00  EUR
II.2)

Description

II.2.2)

Additional CPV code(s)

48445000  -  Customer Relation Management software package
II.2.3)

Place of performance

NUTS code:  IE052 -  South-East
Main site or place of performance:  
Carricklawn, Wexford.
II.2.4)

Description of the procurement

Wexford County Council has initiated a customer service project with the overall aim of providing consistent, quality service to its customers. The new model will be focused on a centralised delivery model through the formation of a customer contact centre and the implementation of a Customer Relationship Management System. The Council now wishes to procure an externally-hosted customer relationship management system which will perform the following functions –
• Provide the software to support the Customer Service Centre to capture and manage all customer interactions including enquiries, service requests and applications through multiple channels (email, online form, telephone, post, in-person visit, social media, chat, etc)
• Provide the ability to record and monitor projects and the various interactions that occur with multiple customers and organisations
• Provide an electronic forms and workflow solution with rich integration functionality that will allow the Council to develop online forms for services requests and applications
• Capture customers basic data and manage the routing, tracking and monitoring of cases through the appropriate stream for further information/communications or progression to application/registration and resolution
• Provide online services (reporting of issues or incidents, request for specific services, customer account enquiries, customer payments and payments for other services), which are fully integrated with the CRM, and can be customised to the processes of the required streams within the Council
• Provide a secure customer portal that will enable customers to request, monitor and manage their service requests, applications, accounts and other interactions with the Council
• Provide an intuitive, easy to use dashboard for back office staff to deal with the cases assigned to them
• Support data management, analysis, and reporting requirements
• Where appropriate, a map based interface is required to allow customers to ide
II.2.5)

Award criteria

Criteria below
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Quality of approach  /  Weighting:  70%
Price  -  Weighting:  30%
II.2.11)

Information about options

Options: no
II.2.13)

Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Description

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

Open procedure
IV.1.8)

Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes
IV.2)

Administrative information

IV.2.1)

Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S: 2017/S 187-383124

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: 1

Title: The Provision of Software and Implementation Services for a Customer Relationship Management Solution for Wexford County Council.

A contract/lot is awarded: yes
V.2)

Award of contract

V.2.1)

Date of conclusion of the contract

11/12/2017
V.2.2)

Information about tenders

Number of tenders received:  5
Number of tenders received by electronic means:  5
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators :  no
V.2.3)

Name and address of the contractor

Firmstep
792638878
Victoria house, 64 Paul Street
London
EC2A 4NG
UK
NUTS code:  UKI -  LONDON

The contractor is an SME : yes
V.2.4)

Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot:  343280.00  EUR

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4)

Procedures for review

VI.4.1)

Review body

High Court
Chief Registrar, The Four Courts, Inns Quay
Dublin
D7
IE
Telephone: +353 18886000