Contract award notice

Information

Published

Date of dispatch of this notice: 21/12/2021

External Reference: 2021-271810

TED Reference: 2021/S 250-664056

Contract award notice

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)

Name and addresses

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
N/A
Agriculture House
Dublin 2
Kildare Street
IE
Contact person: Catherine Dempsey
Telephone: +353 16072009
NUTS code:  IE -  IRELAND
Internet address(es):
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

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1)

Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)

Title

Implementation, configuration and maintenance of a logical data warehousing and master data management solution for the Data Analytics Unit in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Reference number:  RFT 178736
II.1.2)

Main CPV code

72212600  -  Database and operating software development services
II.1.3)

Type of contract

Services
II.1.4)

Short description

DAFM is a dynamic organisation that requires a multi-disciplinary LDW solution to bridge the gap between the services DAU provide and their respective existing technological data systems. The LDW solution must support compliance with ISO 127001 and GDPR legislation.
The respondent is expected to define a business and technical architecture to support the DAFM statement of strategy. This architecture should provide a framework for organising the data, information management, and technology components that will be used to build the LDW and its architecture. This RFT is requesting a response to supply, implement and support the LDW system with a view to DAFM assuming day to day administration and response to the alerts in due course.
Further details are contained in the Request For Tender document.
II.1.6)

Information about lots

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

Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT:  791750.00  EUR
II.2)

Description

II.2.2)

Additional CPV code(s)

48600000  -  Database and operating software package
48610000  -  Database systems
48612000  -  Database-management system
72312100  -  Data preparation services
72314000  -  Data collection and collation services
72317000  -  Data storage services
72320000  -  Database services
72322000  -  Data management services
II.2.3)

Place of performance

NUTS code:  IE -  IRELAND
II.2.4)

Description of the procurement

DAFM is looking for a LDW solution that;
• Houses our current data requirements in a LDW architecture including but not limited to the following components; Data Warehouse, Data Marts, Data Lake, Master Data Management, Data virtualisation/Federation/access Layer, Cloud computing (if appropriate), Named user sandboxes
• Is scalable and can provide additional resources to address both the computational and data storage needs of big data analysis for the DAU.
• Support conceptual, logical and physical data modelling and include graphical interface data modelling tools.
• Plan, design, implement and test the ETL process into the new data platform and to provide the ETL scripts to DAFM.
• Provide compute resources for high speed data analysis. A solution that can monitor and orchestrate workload either on-premise or cloud based data structures based on the proposed architecture.
• Provides a data catalogue, metadata, taxonomy and a data dictionary for the LDW. Provide a searchable data/metadata catalogue and a data lineage tool.
• Supports historical and real-time BI and analytics and integrates with our current BI and analytics tool set.
• Has a system backup and disaster recovery regimen that integrates with the departments backup and recovery policies.
• Has a robust governance and security controls that allow monitoring and regulation of access to the LDW. The solution should have the facility to leverage user authentication technologies such as Active Directory.
• Can monitor data stability and create and issue alarms and alerts through the creation of incidence tickets.
• Includes an auditing and reporting feature that records access to logs, data structures and system performance.
II.2.5)

Award criteria

Criteria below
Quality criterion  -  Name:  LDW Architecture and general requirements  /  Weighting:  600
Quality criterion  -  Name:  System Scalability  /  Weighting:  150
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Data Migration & ETL Process  /  Weighting:  225
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Compute  /  Weighting:  250
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Data Modelling  /  Weighting:  100
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Data Management  /  Weighting:  300
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Data Analytics, Visualisation, BI and Reporting  /  Weighting:  150
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Backup and Recovery  /  Weighting:  125
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Governance and Security  /  Weighting:  200
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Alarms and Alerts  /  Weighting:  100
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Implementation & Configuration  /  Weighting:  100
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Service Providers  /  Weighting:  600
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Training & Documentation  /  Weighting:  150
Quality criterion  -  Name:  Support  /  Weighting:  250
Cost criterion  -  Name:  Fixed Price Cost for Installation and Configuration of solution  /  Weighting:  1500
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: 2020/S 222-544989

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: 1

Title: Implementation, configuration and maintenance of a logical data warehousing and master data management solution for the Data Analytics Unit in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

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

Award of contract

V.2.1)

Date of conclusion of the contract

30/06/2021
V.2.2)

Information about tenders

Number of tenders received:  6
Number of tenders received from SMEs:  1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators :  no
V.2.3)

Name and address of the contractor

Deloitte Ireland LLP
Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin
Dublin 2
IE
NUTS code:  IE -  IRELAND

The contractor is an SME : no
V.2.4)

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

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:  508000.00  EUR
Total value of the contract/lot:  791750.00  EUR

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4)

Procedures for review

VI.4.1)

Review body

High Court of Ireland
Dublin
IE