The Minister for Justice (the ‘Contracting Authority’) invites expressions of interest (‘Responses’) to this pre-qualification questionnaire (‘PQQ’) from economic operators (‘Candidates’) for the provision of an ICT managed service as described in Appendix 1 to this PQQ. (the ‘Service’).

This public procurement competition (‘the Competition’) is being conducted using the restricted procedure under the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016 (Statutory Instrument 284 of 2016) (the ‘Regulations’), which comprises the following stages:

(i) Stage 1: pre-qualification (‘Stage 1’):

The Contracting Authority invites responses from candidates to this PQQ. It is envisaged that the Contracting Authority will shortlist the five (5) highest scoring candidates, (depending on the number of responses received) that have submitted compliant responses and have met the selection criteria set out in this PQQ to proceed to Stage 2.

(ii) Stage 2: request for tenders (‘Stage 2’):

The Contracting Authority will issue the request for tender (‘RFT’) document to those highest scoring candidates shortlisted at Stage 1 (‘Tenderers’). The purpose of the RFT will be to identify the most economically advantageous tenderer in this public procurement competition (‘the Competition’). Candidates should note that tenderer responses to the RFT at Stage 2 will be evaluated in line with the proposed qualitative criteria as set in section 3.3 of this PQQ.