Financial management consultancy services

Tender description

This is an award notice. TII is seeking to engage external service delivery partners by way of a framework agreement to provide the services described below: Lot 1: Financial Management and Reporting Services. This lot covers the provision of financial management services to TII, relating to its commercial operations – eFlow, Dublin Tunnel, Motorway Service Areas, Luas and PPP operations. Lot 2: General Financial Services. This lot covers the provision of general financial and advisory services to TII (including, but not limited to, matters such accounting, tax, regulation, rates, HR and business process reviews/improvements, assurance, outsourcing, knowledge management). It is anticipated that the framework agreements for Lots 1 & 2 will be awarded in Quarter 3 2019, for a period of 36 months, with an option to extend both agreements by a further 12 months. It is esimated that the spend per year will be 1 000 000 EUR for Lot 1 and 1 000 000 EUR for Lot 2. The authority is responsible for the management and monitoring of several commercial operations: ‘Roads’ (predominately tolling) and ‘Light Rail’. The authority is seeking to procure an external financial service provider to: — perform a monitoring and oversight role with regard to the financial elements (incorporating assurance, internal control, reconciliation and reporting) of the ‘Roads’ related commercial operations. This role is currently performed in-house for ‘Light Rail’ and this is expected to continue, — provide financial management services relating to all the authority’s commercial operations (roads and light rail), to be provided on an ad-hoc basis. The authority is seeking to procure an external financial service provider to provide general financial services and advice across all of its activities and includes but is not limited to the areas of finance, taxation, HR, compliance and knowledge management. tenderers should note that audit services and pension actuarial advice are not included in this tender competition. In addition, tenderers should note that the authority may procure some financial services regarding MetroLink as required through a separate procurement competition. This will be at a later date. There may be elements of general advice/assistance regarding MetroLink required under this Lot 2 framework agreement however it is envisaged that any substantial work would be sought under the separate MetroLink financial advisory arrangements.