Design and Build of the Rossnowlagh Outdoor Gym Area, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Donegal County Council_1193 ran this procurement for “Design and Build of the Rossnowlagh Outdoor Gym Area, Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal” 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:

• The Contractor is responsible for the safety and stability of the Works, and of all operations on
• access routes to and through the Site, and any required maintenance and upgrading of them,
• responsible for obtaining and providing all facilities, power, water, and other services it
• supply under this Contract in addition to the Price.
• Any VAT arising on the supply under this Contract that is chargeable at another 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 extract showed a structured PQQ-to-ITT sequence intended to shortlist capable bidders before full award-stage submission. Programme and policy framing was only partially visible, but continuity and modernisation drivers were evident in the procurement design.

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.; 00 Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € Maximum permissible excess on Professional Indemnity Insurance in any one claim below which the will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2% of the Tenderer’s annual turnover, or €5,000. Minimum level of Public Liability I; one accident: € 6,500,000 Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the will bear the cost: € 10,000 Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,000 The amount of the Performance Bond
• 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.
• 00 Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € Maximum permissible excess on Professional Indemnity Insurance in any one claim below which the will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2% of the Tenderer’s annual turnover, or €5,000. Minimum level of Public Liability I
• one accident: € 6,500,000 Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the will bear the cost: € 10,000 Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,000 The amount of the Performance Bond
• 3 Minimum indemnity limit for employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event 10
• 4 public liability €6,500 10
• 4 employer’s liability €6,500 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) — not specified in extract.
• Mandatory site visit — not specified in extract.
• Submission portal and formatting — eTenders portal and PDF electronic copies were referenced. Submission-related source lines:
• less than €250,000. Projects in excess of €200,000 must be advertised on eTenders
• [PW-CF6-v1.14-19-07-2023.pdf] PW-CF6 v1.14 19/07/2023
• [PW-CF6-v1.14-19-07-2023.pdf] Data shall have the meaning set out in the General Data Protection Regulation
• [PW-CF6-v1.14-19-07-2023.pdf] complete and substantial completion mean that
• Conditions prevail. If there is a pricing document in this Contract, and there is a discrepancy
• between the pricing document and other documents in this Contract, the other documents

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 7 years. 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)
• one accident: € 6,500,000 Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the will bear the cost: € 10,000 Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,000 The amount of the Performance Bond
• nderers shall demonstrate that the proposed Director and Project Manager have a minimum of 7 years relevant experience in the delivery of outdoor gym projects of similar scale and complexity including the installation of equipment
• ia, tenderers shall demonstrate that the proposed Site Agent and Foreman have a minimum of 7 years relevant experience in the delivery of outdoor projects of similar scale and complexity including the installation of equipment
• A minimum of 7 items of outdoor gym equipment is required, to include items such
• 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

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: PW-CF6-v1.14-19-07-2023.pdf, Schedule says that a performance bond is required, within 7 days after the Employer send, Schedule or an architect, engineer,.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule or, if not stated there, in, Schedule are to the clauses of the, Schedule and.