Written answers
Tuesday, 3 November 2020
Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment
Departmental Contracts
Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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230. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of contracts approved in his Department in 2019 and to date in 2020 without competitive tender; the details of the contract; the company awarded the contract; and the full value of the contract in tabular form. [33269/20]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is attached in tabular form below. All contract values are inclusive of VAT. The 2020 details relate to the period to the end of October 2020.
Date of Contract | Company Awarded Contract | Details of Contract | Value of Contract € |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Oracle EMEA | (i) Oracle ACS Support for E-Business Suite for 2020 required in anticipation of Financial Management Shared Service project. (ii) Various annual licence support contracts. Only Oracle can provide the above. Original licence purchases were by way of competitive tender. | 3 contracts totalling €429,965 |
| 2019 | Microsoft Ireland | Microsoft Unified Support December 2019 to December 2020. This service is not provided by any other service providers. | €82,585 |
| 2019 | SWORD GROUP | Maintenance contract for the PTOLEMY IP administration system used by the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland. PTOLEMY is a proprietary software developed by SWORD and therefore cannot be maintained or developed by a third party. Original system purchase was by way of competitive tender. | €111,129 |
| 2019 | Paul Martin | Artwork and booklets for Free Trade Agreements | €4,762 |
| 2019 | Wilson Creative | Animation for small and medium enterprises campaign | €1,568 |
| 2019 | Wordperfect Translation Services Ltd* | Provision of interpretations at Labour Court hearings | €11,937 |
| 2020 | Evros Technology Group | Critical and urgent purchase of laptops and remote devices to enable staff to work from home during COVID-19 lockdown/restrictions. Department of Finance Circular 40/02 procedures apply and were complied with. | 3 contracts totalling €152,805 |
| 2020 | Oracle EMEA | (i) Oracle ACS Support for E-Business Suite and Database 11 for 2021. Required in anticipation of Financial Management Shared Service project. (ii) Various annual licence supports. Only Oracle can provide this support. Original licence purchases were by way of competitive tender. | €536,589 |
| 2020 | Arkphire (formerly Zinopy) | Citrix Remote access contract extended for one additional year due to importance of remote access during COVID-19 restrictions. Department of Finance Circular 40/02 procedures apply and were complied with. | €50,000 |
| 2020 | McCann FitzGerald Note: The awarding of the contract without undertaking a competitive process was in compliance with the OGP information note on ‘ COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Public Procurement’ | Provision of Legal Advice for the negotiation and finalisation of the Funding Agreement between the European Investment Fund and DBEI. | €24,600 |
| 2020 | McCann Fitzgerald Note: The awarding of the contract without undertaking a competitive process was in compliance with the OGP information note on ‘ COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Public Procurement’ | Legal services in respect of the COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme | €133,270 |
| 2020 | SWORD GROUP | Maintenance contract for the PTOLEMY IP administration system used by the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland. PTOLEMY is a proprietary software developed by SWORD and therefore cannot be maintained or developed by a third party. Original system purchase was by way of competitive tender. | €139,181 |
| 2020 | Wilson Creative | Animation for Free Trade Agreements | €3,376 |
| 2020 | Wordperfect Translation Services Ltd* | Provision of interpretations at Labour Court hearings | €6,476 |
| 2020 | Conor Feeney | Legal Settlement of Safety, Health and Welfare (Construction)(Amendment) Regs 2020 | €350 |
| 2020 | Helen-Claire O’Hanlon | Legal scrutiny and advices in respect of draft Regulations: (i) Dangerous Substances (Flammable Liquids and Fuels Retail Stores) Regulations 2019 (ii) Dangerous Substances (Flammable Liquids and Fuels Distribution and Commercial Supply Stores) Regulations, 2019. This contract was a follow on from a tender award to Ms. O’Hanlon from 2019. | €830 |
| 2020 | Donncha Ó Cróinín, Ling Language Technology | Translation into Irish of Data Protection Return to Work Protocol by Ling language technology. This contract was awarded to Ling Tech as they had previously translated the Return to Work Safely Protocol following a tendering process. | €135 |
| 2020 | ESRI | Review of Remuneration Levels for Employment Permits** | €17,500 |
* The Labour Court occasionally provides, when necessary, language interpretation services to parties involved in appeals and disputes before the Court. The Court, in early 2020, initiated a process to procure interpretation services through competitive tendering. That procurement process has been temporarily suspended due to the administrative challenges imposed upon Court operations by public health guidelines in the context of the current global pandemic. The Court is committed to resuming the competitive procurement process as soon as is practicably possible.
** A request for tender was published in Quarter 4, 2019. Having received no tenders, under the Department of Finance Public Procurement Guidelines (para 6.13 (iv) b) Economic Migration Policy Unit undertook a ‘negotiated procedure without prior notification’ with the ESRI to establish workable parameters for the study, on foot of which a contract was signed.
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