The Provision of Non Geographic Telephony Services

• routing of Non Geographic Numbers (NGN numbers) to ESB designated termination numbers (NGN numbers: 1800, 0818, and any legacy 1850 numbers and any future NGN number types available).

• ability to route equivalent geographic numbers in the same routing manner as the parent NGN numbers.

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• routing of Non Geographic Numbers (NGN numbers) to ESB designated termination numbers (NGN numbers: 1800, 0818, and any legacy 1850 numbers and any future NGN number types available).

• ability to route equivalent Geographic numbers in the same routing manner as the parent NGN numbers.

The term of the contract is for a period of 36 months with an option to extend after the initial period for a further period of up to 24 months and again for up to another 24 month period. Therefore the total contract period will be up to 84 months (7 years).

The Provision of Non Geographic Telephony Services

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (http://www.etenders.gov.ie/) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;

2) This is the sole call for competition for this service;

3) The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers;

4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant;

6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement, the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to said framework;

7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process at any time;

8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words “or equivalent” will always be appended;

9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition;

10) At Section II.2.9) while we have indicated that at least 4 companies will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 4, subject to that