JTF Failte Ireland and Laois County Council Rock of Dunamase Car Park

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Laois County Council ran this procurement for “JTF Failte Ireland and Laois County Council Rock of Dunamase Car Park” 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:

• ctory Production Control (FPC) system in accordance with IS EN 13108-21 for each manufacturing facility to be used during the contract
• system in accordance with IS EN 13108-21 for each manufacturing
• Control (FPC) system in accordance with IS EN 13108-21
• Control (FPC) system in accordance with IS EN 13108-21 for each manufacturing facility to be used
• system in accordance with IS EN 13108
• It is a condition of the mini-competition that supply (and place) contracts can only be allocated to
• contractors/suppliers where all relevant supporting documentation has been submitted.
• Where the contract awarded requires supply and delivery by the quarry of materials to a Council site, all delivery
• circumstance where trucks being used by a quarry to supply materials to a Council site are found to be in breach
• of this requirement, the supplying quarry may be excluded from supplying further materials under this mini-tender.
• Making Materials and Ancillary Works for Local Authorities – Supply and Place (Lot 2).
• Relevant payments shall be subject to Irish ‘Professional Services Withholding Tax’ at the prevailing rate 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.

• Contracting Authority. Replacement personnel must be of equal or better standing that the existing personnel in
• management, project programme, resourcing proposals and allowable project duration.

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.; ) Minimum indemnity limit for employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event ; 4 Maximum levels of excess for * insurance of the Works and goods and materials for the Works €10,000 * public liability €6,500[9] * employer’s liability €6,500[10]
• 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.
• ) Minimum indemnity limit for employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event
• 4 Maximum levels of excess for * insurance of the Works and goods and materials for the Works €10,000 * public liability €6,500[9] * employer’s liability €6,500[10]
• ) Minimum indemnity limit for employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event 10
• 4 Maximum levels of excess for  insurance of the Works and goods and materials for the Works €10,000  public liability €6,5009 7 If no percentage specified, 10% applie
• 6 19/07/2023 6  employer’s liability €6,50010 12

5. Award criteria & scoring

6. Submission requirements

• Method statement / response document (template/page limits) — not specified in extract.
• 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:
• [RODCP Instructions To Tenderers.pdf] Laois County Council
• [RODCP Instructions To Tenderers.pdf] contract for the Works
• [RODCP Instructions To Tenderers.pdf] LoCall: 1890 220 222
• contractors/suppliers where all relevant supporting documentation has been submitted.
• that subject to available budget and pricing Laois County Council reserves the right to omit works from the
• [RODCP Instructions To Tenderers.pdf] ........................................................................................................................................... 23

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

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

• VERIFIED PHRASES (deterministic regex extract from the documents — treat as authoritative for numerical claims)
• lace arrangements to complete the Works within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s Representative will give the above certificate to
• the Works within 12 months after the termination, the Contractor’s payment under this clause
• e Schedule says that a performance bond is required, within 7 days after the Employer sends
• When a payment is to be made, not later than 5 days after the date agreed between the
• Within 14 days of receiving the payment claim notice,
• n to put in place arrangements to complete the Works within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s R
• the Works within 12 months after the termination, the Contractor’s

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 — not clearly specified in extract.
• 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: RODCP Instructions To Tenderers.pdf, Schedule says that a performance bond is required, within 7 days after the Employer send, Appendix 3 ..............................................................................
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule, Schedule (Volume B);, Schedule);.