Provision of Disaster Recovery Services to the National Treatment Purchase Fund

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

National Treatment Purchase Fund ran this procurement for “Provision of Disaster Recovery Services to the National Treatment Purchase Fund” as an operational contract requiring implementation and sustained service execution. The extracted pack showed qualification-stage material with references to later ITT technical depth; practical activity therefore centred on building, integrating, and operating the specified service stack with compliant reporting and handover obligations where stated. Constituent activities and named work elements in the supplied extracts:

• Title: Provision of Disaster Recovery Services to the National Treatment Purchase Fund
• The required servers that are needed to provide this minimum level of service are detailed in Appendix 2
• Minimum requirement to remain eligible in the competition: Candidates must demonstrate that they have measures in place to ensure the delivery of a quality service, as advertised
• or 3rd party certified systems including but not limited to ISO 9001; ISO 27001; ISO27701 etc
• flect the NTPF objective of implementing the service within 8 weeks of contract award
• [Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx] OPEN PROCEUDRE
• Scope of Contract Tender for the Provision of Disaster Recovery Services
• [Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx] Toc191559305)
• [Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx] Toc191559322)
• APPENDIX 3 – Professional Services / Technical Roles Definitions 31
• APPENDIX 4 – Draft Services Contract 33
• [Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx] 337) Non-binding monetary references in the source were treated as context only and were not used as qualification thresholds.

3. Background & buyer context

The buyer context reflected a formal Irish public-procurement route, with pre-qualification used to control entry into the tender stage.

• Title: Provision of Disaster Recovery Services to the National Treatment Purchase Fund
• Buyer: National Treatment Purchase Fund
• flect the NTPF objective of implementing the service within 8 weeks of contract award
• [Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx] The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), herein after referred to as the Contracting Authority, is the authority responsible for this procurement.

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

• Turnover requirement — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• Insurance — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.; Insurance Confirmation of the following insurances being in place: * Employer’s Liability - €13 million, for any one claim or series of claims arising out of a single occurrence * Public Liability - €6.5 million, for any one claim or series of claims; * Product Liability - €6.5 million, for any one claim or series of claims
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — not specified for this tender
• Geographic / facility constraints — not specified for this tender Additional binding lines surfaced in the deterministic extract:
• — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• Insurance Confirmation of the following insurances being in place: * Employer’s Liability - €13 million, for any one claim or series of claims arising out of a single occurrence * Public Liability - €6.5 million, for any one claim or series of claims
• • Product Liability - €6.5 million, for any one claim or series of claims
• • Professional Indem arising out of a single occurrence * Public Liability - €6.5 million, for any one claim or series of claims
• • Professional Indemnity - €1.0 million, limit in the aggregate per insurance y
• • Cyber Liability - €1.5 million, limit in the aggregate per insurance y

5. Award criteria & scoring

6. Submission requirements

• Method statement / response document (template/page limits) — Appendix 1 questionnaire/PQQ response was required.
• CVs (page count, named roles) — not specified in extract.
• Pricing schedule (format/template) — expected at ITT stage.
• Case studies (number/value range) — client references/comparable project evidence was referenced.
• Declarations (ESPD/Bona Fides/Tax/COI) — ESPD/declaration/statement-of-confirmation language was present.
• Mandatory site visit — not specified in extract.
• Submission portal and formatting — eTenders portal and PDF electronic copies were referenced. Submission-related source lines:
• The required servers that are needed to provide this minimum level of service are detailed in Appendix 2
• Questions and Answers facility on www.etenders.gov.ie
• Via www.etenders.gov.ie only
• Please note that information relating to this Invitation to Tender, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie. Registration is free of charge and there is no charge for documents. Please note that the Contracting Authority accepts no responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
• APPENDIX 1 – Current Infrastructure 26
• APPENDIX 2 – Hardware to be provided by Tenderer 28

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 12 months. Payment cycle, SLA/KPI schedule, and penalty regime were not fully disclosed in the snippets unless listed below.

• VERIFIED PHRASES (deterministic regex extract from the documents — treat as authoritative for numerical claims)
• The indicative budget for the contract is anticipated to be in the region of €200,000
• NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED in consideration of the sum of €2.00 (the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged by the Contractor) as follows:
• The proposed equipment supplied by the Tenderer must meet the minimum requirements set out below
• A minimum of TWO static public IP addresses are required by NTPF
• entures/Consortiums of use of Sub-Contractors) Number available from 3rd parties
• Any such extensions will be for a duration of 12 months with a maximum of Two (2) such extensio
• ontinues for 10 calendar days either Party may terminate at 14 days’ notice

9. Risks, red flags & unusuals

• Qualification gate: the deterministic extract included a turnover threshold line (— use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.), which can materially narrow bidder pool composition.
• The two-step process (PQQ then ITT) shifted effort to compliance evidence early, with competitive scoring detail potentially deferred.
• Technical and contractual granularity appeared ITT-dependent, increasing ambiguity at qualification stage for non-incumbent bidders.

10. SME fit assessment

This competition looked most accessible to firms with established public-sector tender capability, documented financial capacity, and direct operational experience in the relevant service category.

• Credible bidder profile — mid-sized to large specialist with formal QA/compliance process.
• Consortium / sub-contracting — allowed or addressed in the extracts (Appendix references and reliance provisions).
• Indicative bid-prep effort — 6 to 12 working days for evidence collation, form completion, and review cycles at PQQ level.
• Pwin signal — strongest for bidders with reusable qualification artefacts, comparable references, and low-friction mobilisation capability.

11. Where to dig deeper

• Source RFT/PQQ filenames: Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx, 5.4 Clarification of Ab

[Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx, 25.

[Request for Tender - NTPF Disaster Recovery Services - Final.docx.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix 2, APPENDIX 1 – Current Infrastructure 26](#_Toc191559327), APPENDIX 2 – Hardware to be provided by Tenderer 28](#_Toc191559328).