Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)

Name and addresses

Department of Defence

N/A

Station Road

Co Kildare

Newbridge

Contact person: Liam Morrow

Telephone: +353 45492522

E-mail: liam.morrow@defence.ie

Internet address(es):

Main address: www.defence.ie

Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/292

I.2)

Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.4)

Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions

I.5)

Main activity

Defence

Section II: Object

II.1)

Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)

Title

Pre-Qualification Questionaire seeking expressions of interest for Replacement of all hardware supporting Oracle Applications and Upgrade to bespoke Oracle Human Resource Management System

Reference number: CON 1091/2019

II.1.2)

Main CPV code

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

II.1.3)

Type of contract

Services

II.1.4)

Short description

The Minister for Defence is seeking to establish a Competitive Dialogue through this Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) with a view to establishing a contract for requirements of the Department of Defence/Defence Forces (DODDF).
The DODDF has an integrated suite of strategic applications (Management Information Framework (MIF) comprising an Oracle Financial Application (Oracle eBusiness Suite), a bespoke Oracle Human Resource Management System – The Personnel Management System (PMS) and an Identity and Access Management Solution (Oracle Single Sign On).
The DODDF is seeking to replace its hardware infrastructure as a platform for these strategic applications in addition to upgrading the PMS application.
The Contracting Authority plans to initiate a tender competition for a contract for the requirements set out in Section 3 – Scope of Requirements arising from this PQQ. This PQQ (Stage 1) will direct the structure of the tender competitions.

II.1.6)

Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.2)

Description

II.2.2)

Additional CPV code(s)

48400000 - Business transaction and personal business software package

48440000 - Financial analysis and accounting software package

48600000 - Database and operating software package

48610000 - Database systems

48800000 - Information systems and servers

48812000 - Financial information systems

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72212000 - Programming services of application software

72212600 - Database and operating software development services

48900000 - Miscellaneous software package and computer systems

II.2.3)

Place of performance

Main site or place of performance:

W12 AD93

II.2.4)

Description of the procurement

The Minister for Defence (the “Contracting Authority”) is seeking to establish a Competitive Dialogue from economic operators (“Candidates”) through this Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) with a view to establishing a contract for requirements of the Department of Defence/Defence Forces (DODDF).
This public procurement competition (the “Competition”) will be conducted in accordance with the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016 (Statutory Instrument 284 of 2016) (the “Regulations”).
The DODDF has an integrated suite of strategic applications (Management Information Framework (MIF) comprising an Oracle Financial Application (Oracle eBusiness Suite), a bespoke Oracle Human Resource Management System – The Personnel Management System (PMS) and an Identity and Access Management Solution (Oracle Single Sign On). The applications are hosted in two geographically separated sites, production and disaster recovery.
The DODDF is seeking to replace its hardware infrastructure as a platform for these strategic applications in addition to upgrading the PMS application.
The DODDF intends to migrate the existing Financial Application to Government Financial Management Shared Services (FMSS).
The Contracting Authority plans to initiate a tender competition for a contract for the requirements set out in Section 3 – Scope of Requirements arising from this PQQ. This PQQ (Stage 1) will direct the structure of the tender competitions.

II.2.5)

Award criteria

Criteria below

Quality criterion - Name: Technical Merit of Overall Solution / Weighting: 2800

Quality criterion - Name: Technical Merit and Approach to Upgrade of PMS / Weighting: 1200

Quality criterion - Name: Quality of the Team Assigned / Weighting: 500

Quality criterion - Name: Support Offering / Weighting: 1500

Cost criterion - Name: Total Cost of Ownership / Weighting: 4000

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

Competitive dialogue

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: 2019/S 209-510749

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: 1

Title: Replacement of all hardware supporting Oracle Applications and Upgrade to bespoke Oracle Human Resource Management System

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.4)

Procedures for review

VI.4.1)

Review body

High Court

Four Courts, Inns Quay

Dublin

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