Contract award notice - utilities

Information

Published

Date of dispatch of this notice: 08/01/2024

External Reference: 2024-298335

TED Reference: 2024/S 009-020054

Contract award notice - utilities

Contract award notice – utilities

Results of the procurement procedure

Services

Directive 2014/25/EU

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1)

Name and addresses

Electricity Supply Board ( ESB )
N/A
27 Lower Fitzwilliam Street
Dublin 2
IE
Contact person: Laura Govan
Telephone: +353 876369838
NUTS code:  IE -  IRELAND
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.esb.ie

I.6)

Main activity

Electricity

Section II: Object

II.1)

Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)

Title

Printing Outsourced Services
Reference number:  SSCON6303
II.1.2)

Main CPV code

79823000  -  Printing and delivery services
II.1.3)

Type of contract

Services
II.1.4)

Short description

ESB wishes to appoint a service provider to deliver some or all of the following services:
- Bill Printing and Ancillary Printing Services
- Payroll Printing Service
- Contingency Arrangements
- Stationery Management
- Print Formatting
- Transition Arrangements
- Destruction and Disposal.
II.1.6)

Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)

Description

II.2.3)

Place of performance

NUTS code:  IE -  IRELAND
II.2.4)

Description of the procurement

ESB currently prints on average 20,000 bills per day. These bills are printed using outsourced partner bill printing capability on print on demand (POD) solution.
PAYG Statements are issued to customers every 3 months. The volumes printed are approximately 60,000 three times a year.
Payroll: 300 000 payroll/annually ( 3,500 per week and 1,800 forth-nightly and 6,500 per month).
Ancillary Printing Services: There are various letters that are required that include New Connection Agreements, Long Term No Access Letters (LTNA), Meter sheets and the volumes for each of these can vary each month.
ESB operates in a dynamic, competitive marketplace and wishes to leverage value from available technology and print management capability within the print industry. Due to the nature and scale of changes within the energy market ESB will require from its service provider a range of capabilities for innovative, flexible and fast responses to different technical, commercial and service demands, reflecting best practice in the industry.
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
II.2.14)

Additional information

As stated in the pre-qualification information memorandum available on request from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 210440.

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Description

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
IV.1.3)

Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
IV.1.8)

Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement : no
IV.2)

Administrative information

IV.2.1)

Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S: 2022/S 062-164494
IV.2.9)

Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a periodic indicative notice

The contracting entity will not award any further contracts based on the above periodic indicative notice

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: 1

Title: Printing Outsourced Services

A contract/lot is awarded: no
V.1)

Information on non-award

The contract/lot is not awarded
Other reasons (discontinuation of procedure)

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3)

Additional information

This PQQ will is now cancelled and will be replaced by TR653 - ESB Complete Print and CX Service
VI.4)

Procedures for review

VI.4.1)

Review body

Chief Registrar
Four Courts, Inns Quay
Dublin 7
IE
Telephone: +353 18886000
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie