The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of classroom furniture for use in schools and centres for Donegal Education and Training Board

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Donegal Education and Training Board_368 ran this procurement for “The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of classroom furniture for use in schools and centres for Donegal Education and Training Board” as an operational contract requiring implementation and sustained service execution. The extracted pack showed qualification-stage material with references to later ITT technical depth; practical activity therefore centred on building, integrating, and operating the specified service stack with compliant reporting and handover obligations where stated. Constituent activities and named work elements in the supplied extracts:

• Title: The Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of classroom furniture for use in schools and centres for Donegal Education and Training Board
• etary height adjustable stage system supplied in 2 m x 1 units, adjustable to a minimum of
• roprietary height adjustable stage system supplied in 2 m x 1 units, adjustable to a minimum of
• Services are provided to approximately 20,000 students and young people across the ETB
• for The Supply, Delivery, Installation and
• for the supply of the goods as described in Appendix 1 to this CFT (the “Goods”).
• The establishment of a Multi-Party framework for the Supply, Delivery, Installation
• [Classroom Furniture Request for Tender .docx.pdf] Party framework for the Supply, Delivery, Installation
• relationships they can participate and contribute to the successful implementation
• goods and services to the Union’s public procurement and concession markets and
• procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union economic operators,
• goods and services to the public procurement and concession markets of third Non-binding monetary references in the source were treated as context only and were not used as qualification thresholds.

3. Background & buyer context

The buyer context reflected a formal Irish public-procurement route, with pre-qualification used to control entry into the tender stage.

• 5 School Completion Programme (SCP)
• Contracting Authority policy seeks to encourage participation on a fair and equal

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

• Turnover requirement — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• Insurance — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.; cessful Tenderer shall be required to hold for the term of the Goods Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Minimum Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7 million Public Liability €6; 5 million Product Liability €6.5 million 2
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — not specified for this tender
• Geographic / facility constraints — not specified for this tender Additional binding lines surfaced in the deterministic extract:
• — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• cessful Tenderer shall be required to hold for the term of the Goods Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Minimum Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7 million Public Liability €6
• 5 million Product Liability €6.5 million 2

5. Award criteria & scoring

6. Submission requirements

• Method statement / response document (template/page limits) — Appendix 1 questionnaire/PQQ response was required.
• CVs (page count, named roles) — not specified in extract.
• Pricing schedule (format/template) — expected at ITT stage.
• Case studies (number/value range) — client references/comparable project evidence was referenced.
• Declarations (ESPD/Bona Fides/Tax/COI) — ESPD/declaration/statement-of-confirmation language was present.
• Mandatory site visit — not specified in extract.
• Submission portal and formatting — eTenders portal and PDF electronic copies were referenced. Submission-related source lines:
• valued between €200,000 and €999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration
• €999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration
• €3,999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration, to include all non-notif
• Appendix 3A: Schedule C – Declaration of non-notifiable foreign financial contributions (valued between €200,000 and €999,000 in the last three years preceding the declaration)
• 2022/2560 and where the notifying party has been in receipt of foreign financial contributions which are valued between €200,000 and €999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration
• For reporting of foreign financial contributions which are of a value between €200,000 and €999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 6 years. Payment cycle, SLA/KPI schedule, and penalty regime were not fully disclosed in the snippets unless listed below.

• Sector: Office Supplies & Equipment
• VERIFIED PHRASES (deterministic regex extract from the documents — treat as authoritative for numerical claims)
• cessful Tenderer shall be required to hold for the term of the Goods Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Minimum Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7 million Public Liability €6
• NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED in consideration of the sum of €2.00 (the receipt of which is
• 2022/2560 and where the notifying party has been in receipt of foreign financial contributions which are valued between €200,000 and €999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration
• 2022/2560 and where the notifying party has been in receipt of foreign financial contributions which are valued between €1,000,000 and €3,999,000 in the last three (3) years preceding the declaration
• EN 29241 Ergonomics standards for visual display terminals (VDTs)
• BS 1186 Part 2 Timber for and workmanship in joinery

9. Risks, red flags & unusuals

• Qualification gate: the deterministic extract included a turnover threshold line (— use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.), which can materially narrow bidder pool composition.
• The two-step process (PQQ then ITT) shifted effort to compliance evidence early, with competitive scoring detail potentially deferred.
• Technical and contractual granularity appeared ITT-dependent, increasing ambiguity at qualification stage for non-incumbent bidders.

10. SME fit assessment

This competition looked most accessible to firms with established public-sector tender capability, documented financial capacity, and direct operational experience in the relevant service category.

• Credible bidder profile — mid-sized to large specialist with formal QA/compliance process.
• Consortium / sub-contracting — allowed or addressed in the extracts (Appendix references and reliance provisions).
• Indicative bid-prep effort — 6 to 12 working days for evidence collation, form completion, and review cycles at PQQ level.
• Pwin signal — strongest for bidders with reusable qualification artefacts, comparable references, and low-friction mobilisation capability.

11. Where to dig deeper

• Source RFT/PQQ filenames: Classroom Furniture Request for Tender .docx.pdf, Appendix 3A: Schedule C – Declaration of non-notifiable foreign financial contributions, Appendix 3A: Schedule D – Declaration of non-notifiable foreign financial contributions.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix 1 of this RFT, Appendix 1:​, Appendix 2:​.