Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services

Tender description

The Authority intends to establish a multi-party framework agreement in 3 lots for Leap Card Technical Advisory Services. The scope of this tender is the provision of services in relation to the current closed-loop Leap Card Scheme, future account based ticketing systems and related activities of the Authority. The Authority is seeking tenderers to supply some or all of the following services, which may be on short- or medium-term engagements. The framework agreement will be for an initial period of 3 years. At the discretion of the Authority, the framework agreement may be extended for an additional 1 year up to a maximum of 4 years in total. The Authority intends to award places on the framework agreement across 3 lots to the highest ranked 6 tenderer(s) in each lot in accordance with the evaluation criteria within each lot, as follows: Lot 1: Strategic Advisory Services; Lot 2: Technical Services; Lot 3: Resource secondments. Tenderers may apply for 1 or more lots. These services may include but not be limited to the analysis, review, design, evaluation, report writing and advisory services, across both business and technology arenas. This work is likely to be required on an ad-hoc basis and the services are likely to require a mix of on-site visits (at the Authority’s offices in Dublin) and off-site work. International benchmarking and/or peer review comparisons would also be included within this category of service. These services may include but not be limited to technical activities such as test tool development, RFID equipment testing and certification, RFID read range analysis, transaction timing analysis, TRSMs/HSMs implementation and transaction security design and other such technical services relevant to the NTA’s current and next generation ticketing systems. This work if required is likely to be on an ad-hoc basis and these services could be delivered on an off-site basis. These services, if required, would involve the secondment/sourcing of resources for engagements on-site in the Authority’s offices in Dublin, Ireland. Such resources must have experience within transit ticketing and the skill sets required may include: — business analysis, — systems design and analysis, — technical design and analysis, — solution architecture design, — software development, — software testing.