VEAT Notice of the award of contract to Posit Software, PBC, for Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming

VEAT Notice of the award of contract to Posit Software, PBC, for Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming

CPV: 72200000 Servicios de programación de software y de consultoría
Lugar de ejecución:
VEAT Notice of the award of contract to Posit Software, PBC, for Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming
Organismo adjudicador:
Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Número de premio:
1

1. Buyer

1.1 Buyer

Official name : Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Legal type of the buyer : Body governed by public law
Activity of the contracting authority : General public services

2. Procedure

2.1 Procedure

Title : VEAT Notice of the award of contract to Posit Software, PBC, for Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming
Description : VEAT Notice of the award of contract to Posit Software, PBC, for Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming
Procedure identifier : f10eca30-f39d-4bce-a9fd-bb8ffad15ec2
Internal identifier : 1
Type of procedure : Negotiated without prior call for competition

2.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services
Main classification ( cpv ): 72200000 Software programming and consultancy services

2.1.2 Place of performance

Country : Ireland
Anywhere in the given country

2.1.4 General information

Legal basis :
Directive 2014/24/EU

5. Lot

5.1 Lot technical ID : LOT-0001

Title : Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming
Description : Data Science environment for the development of applications using R and Python programming
Internal identifier : 1

5.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services
Main classification ( cpv ): 72200000 Software programming and consultancy services
Quantity : 1 gigabyte

5.1.2 Place of performance

Country : Ireland
Anywhere in the given country
Additional information :

5.1.6 General information

Procurement Project not financed with EU Funds.
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) : yes

5.1.7 Strategic procurement

Aim of strategic procurement : No strategic procurement

5.1.10 Award criteria

Criterion :
Type : Quality
Name :
Description : Quality @ 100%
Weight (percentage, exact) : 100
Description of the method to be used if weighting cannot be expressed by criteria :
Justification for not indicating the weighting of the award criteria :

5.1.16 Further information, mediation and review

Review organisation : The High Court of Ireland
Organisation whose budget is used to pay for the contract : Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Organisation executing the payment : Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Organisation signing the contract : Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
TED eSender : European Dynamics S.A.

6. Results

Value of all contracts awarded in this notice : 100 000 Euro
Direct award :
Justification for direct award : Need for additional works or services by the original contractor
Other justification : This is a VEAT notice to indicate that the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General intends utilise EU public procurement directive Art 32.2(b) (iii) negotiated procedure without prior publication in the following case. (B) Where works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons: (iii) competition is absent for technical reasons. This notice is to indicate that the OCAG intends to contract with POSIT for the provision of data analytic software The value is an estimate based on maximum contract value and may not be accurate Posit is the sole supplier that align with the aforementioned regulation. Posit holds exclusive rights to certain proprietary software and technologies that are essential for the deployment of the web application that the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General (OCAG) require for staff to use during the audit process including the software where we would code the applications called “workbench”, and the server to manage the packages we require. The technical requirements for the services are highly specialised, and Posit's expertise in managing R and Python packages appears to be unmatched in the market. This level of specialisation and technical capability means that competition is absent for technical reasons, as per Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) OCAG intends to award this contract to POSIT for the provision of data analytic software and services . The contract will not be entered into until the expiration of 10 calendar days, starting from the day after the publication of this notice. However, if future advice were to change this position, a competition may be conducted at a later date

6.1 Result lot ldentifier : LOT-0001

Framework agreement :
Re-estimated value of the framework agreement : 100 000 Euro

6.1.2 Information about winners

8. Organisations

8.1 ORG-0001

Official name : Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Postal address : 3A Mayor Street Upper Dublin 1
Town : Dubin
Country : Ireland
Contact point : Janet Keegan
Telephone : +353 1 8639042
Roles of this organisation :
Buyer
Organisation signing the contract
Organisation whose budget is used to pay for the contract
Organisation executing the payment

8.1 ORG-0002

Official name : The High Court of Ireland
Registration number : The High Court of Ireland
Department : The High Court of Ireland
Postal address : Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Town : Dublin
Postcode : D07 WDX8
Country : Ireland
Telephone : +353 1 8886000
Roles of this organisation :
Review organisation

8.1 ORG-0003

Official name : European Dynamics S.A.
Registration number : 002024901000
Department : European Dynamics S.A.
Town : Athens
Country : Greece
Telephone : +30 2108094500
Roles of this organisation :
TED eSender

8.1 ORG-0004

Official name : Posit Software, PBC
Registration number : USA 26-4457115
Postal address : Northern Ave Suite 420 Boston, MA 02210 USA
Town : Boston
Country : United States
Contact point : Jeremy Allen
Telephone : +01 470 465 8826
Roles of this organisation :
Tenderer

11. Notice information

11.1 Notice information

Notice identifier/version : b88193a4-7bc5-4fd5-a655-cc9c0ca303d4 - 01
Form type : Direct award preannouncement
Notice type : Voluntary ex-ante transparency notice
Notice dispatch date : 08/10/2024 10:51 +01:00
Languages in which this notice is officially available : English

11.2 Publication information

Notice publication number : 00607847-2024
OJ S issue number : 197/2024
Publication date : 09/10/2024