Extension and Alterations to St Brendan's National School Rathcoole Mallow Co Cork P51A038

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

St. Brendan's National School (Rathcoole) ran this procurement for “Extension and Alterations to St Brendan's National School Rathcoole Mallow Co Cork P51A038” 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:

• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• Minimum indemnity limit for Public liability insurance: €6,500,000[7] for any one event, but this limit may be on an annual aggregate basis for products liability, collapse, vibration, subsidence, removal and weakening of supports and sudden and accidental pollution.
• Persons under a contract of service or apprenticeship with the insured
• Persons under a contract of service or apprenticeship with the insured.
• Effecting or maintenance of insurance of or in connection with the provision of finance or advice on financial matters
• See Ancillary Certificate requirements Emergency lighting System — Certificate of Installation
• Granted Fire Safety Certificate Emergency Lighting System — Commissioning Certificate
• [FTS-5-v2.7-09-01-2025.docx] Emergency lighting System — Certificate of Installation
• Cs - Ancillary Certificate of Compliance on Completion: Fire seals/fire stopping/ intumescent paint/ fire doors, alarms, suppression systems, lifts etc
• Fire Detection and Alarm System — Certificate of Installation
• Fire Detection and Alarm System — Commissioning Certificate
• Utilities means conducting media and apparatus for water, sewage, electricity, gas, oil, telecommunications, data, steam, air, or other services, and associated apparatus and structures. 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.

• Property of the insured or in the insured’s custody or control other than existing premises and their contents temporarily occupied for the purposes of the Works
• [FTS-5-v2.7-09-01-2025.docx] insured’s custody or control other than existing premises and their contents temporarily occupied for the purposes of the Works
• *K Delay Events, Compensation Events, Programme
• K Delay Events, Compensation Events, Programme Contingency, Delay Costs, Adjustments(Sub-clauses 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.6, 10.7)

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 Public liability insurance: €6,500,000[7] for any one event, bu; Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,000[8] for any one event
• 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 Public liability insurance: €6,500,000[7] for any one event, bu
• Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,000[8] for any one event
• Maximum excess for Public liability: €10,000~~[10]~~ in respect of p
• 5% of the Contract Sum Minimum indemnity for Public liability and Employers' liability insurance: Public Liability Insurance: '€6,500,000.00' for any one event, but this limit may
• Employers' Liability Insurance: '€13,000,000.00' for any one event

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:
• Value: not disclosed (eTenders placeholder)
• ect item description and the difference for an item in, or that should have been in, the Pricing Document is more than €500. No Yes
• We have examined and understand the Public Works Contract for Minor Building and Civil Engineering Works Designed by the Employer, the Works Requirements, the Pricing Document, all as amended by any supplemental information, for the above contract.
• We submit with this Tender the completed Pricing Document and Schedule which form part of this Tender. .
• [CA Note: Please choose from the options in the drop down menus below] A Bill of Quantities measured in accordance with the: as included in Volume C. [Where Agreed Rules of Measurement 4 is selected from the drop down menu above it shall be as amended by Supplement 1, Issue 2. Where Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement 4: Revised is selected from the drop down menu above it shall be the 4TH Edition as amended in accordance with Section 5.2 of Guidance Note GN 1.5.3 of the Capital Works Management Framework. Where the TII’s Requirements for Measuring and Pricing (RMP) is selected from the drop down menu above, it shall be the latest edition as published by Transport Infrastructure Ireland] [CA Note: Please choose from the options in the drop down menu below for Mechanical & Electrical Works] Mechanical & Electrical Works measured in accordance with: *[Where Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement 4:Revised is selected from the drop down
• [FTS-5-v2.7-09-01-2025.docx] edition as published by Transport Infrastructure Ireland]* [CA Note: Please choose from the options in the drop down menu below for Mechanical & Electrical Works] Mechanical & Electrical Works measured in accordance with: [Where Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement 4:Revised is selected from the drop down menu above it shall be the 4th Edition as amended in accordance with Section 5.2 of Guidance Note GN 1.5.3 of the Capital Works Management Framework. Where TII’s Requirements for Measuring and Pricing (RMP) is selected from the drop down menu above, it shall be the latest edition as published by Transport Infrastructure Ireland]

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 18 months. Payment cycle, SLA/KPI schedule, and penalty regime were not fully disclosed in the snippets unless listed below.

• Title: Extension and Alterations to St Brendan's National School Rathcoole Mallow Co Cork P51A038
• VERIFIED PHRASES (deterministic regex extract from the documents — treat as authoritative for numerical claims)
• ect item description and the difference for an item in, or that should have been in, the Pricing Document is more than €500. No Yes
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 10,000.00 [14]
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 10,000
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention,
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, €
• J (a) A daily record of the number and description of tradesmen and labour employed on the

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.
• Contract value was not disclosed in metadata, creating uncertainty on margin, resourcing, and financing assumptions.
• 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: FTS-5-v2.7-09-01-2025.docx, Where Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement 4:Revised is selected from the drop down

[FTS-5-v2.7-09-01-2025.docx, ITT-W2-v3.0-18-11-24-23-01-25.docx.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule for Public Works Contract for Building Works Designed by the Employer, Schedule which form part of this Tender. ., scheduled and included in Volume A and Volume C (Preliminaries Only) ,* .