The Contracting Authority reserves the right, at its discretion, to extend the Term for up to two (2) additional periods of up to twelve (12) months each on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law. The Term will not exceed nine (9) years in aggregate.

It is envisaged that the Contracting Authority will shortlist the 3 highest scoring Candidates that have submitted compliant Responses and have met the Selection Criteria set out in this PQQ. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to shortlist more than the 3 highest scoring Candidates if the scores of the next highest ranking Candidate(s) are within 5% of the score of the third highest scoring Candidate.

Pass/Fail Criterion: Candidates must have achieved a minimum turnover equal to or in excess of €20M in each of the Candidate’s last three financial years.
Financial Robustness Criterion (300 marks available): Candidates must demonstrate sufficient financial capacity to successfully provide the services as outlined in Appendix 1 of the PQQ. The Candidate must achieve at least 40% (i.e. 120 marks) of the maximum available marks in respect of financial robustness.
Ability to Fund Criterion (100 marks available): The Candidate must demonstrate that it has the ability to fund this contract by providing an example of funding (either self-funded or debt funded) for at least one contract of a similar nature, scale and complexity to that required in the PQQ in the last 10 years. The Candidate must achieve at least 40% (i.e. 40 marks) of the maximum available marks in respect of ability to fund a contract example.

As above.

The minimum criteria that apply to this PPQ Stage of the Competition are as follows:
Pass/Fail Criterion: Candidates must demonstrate they have previous experience of successfully delivering a contract, within the last ten (10) years, of a similar nature, scale and complexity to that required by the Contracting Authority as set out in Appendix 1. The contract example provided must include sufficient information to demonstrate previous experience in successfully designing, delivering and implementing a fully resilient and highly available secure digital radio network managed service which must fulfil all of the following requirements:
i) a single contract with a value that equals or exceeds €20m per annum;
ii) cover a geographical area which equals or exceeds that of Ireland in terms of size and terrain type;
iii) Candidate must have worked in close collaboration, with regular interaction on a multi-agency basis, with a minimum of four (4) separate public sector bodies;
iv) covered a minimum of 19,000 subscriptions;
v) provided seamless nationwide coverage to handheld, mobile and fixed terminals in outdoor and indoor locations and to air-ground-air communications;
vi) 99.99% reliability across the network;
vii) an architecture with sufficient spare capacity to scale/grow rapidly as usage was required to handle emergency requirements and one-time events at short notice;
viii) secured against unauthorised physical interference, manipulation, eavesdropping, interception, monitoring and jamming; and
ix) the contract must also demonstrate how you worked closely with other consortia members (if applicable) and/or subcontractors to successfully manage their performance in the delivery of the contract.

As above.