ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES AND LIGHTING UPGRADE (V2)

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Irish Blood Transfusion Service ran this procurement for “ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES AND LIGHTING UPGRADE (V2)” 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: ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE SERVICES AND LIGHTING UPGRADE (V2)
• Buyer: Irish Blood Transfusion Service
• Sector: Building Services & Maintenance
• Costs are of the order of €100,000 to €500,000 for the electrical services
• EN 50085 ‘Cable Trunking Systems and Cable Ducting Systems for Electrical
• EN 61386 ‘Conduit Systems for Electrical Installations’
• EN 61537 ‘Cable Management - Cable Tray Systems and Cable Ladder Systems’
• ries it shall be additionally supported within 150mm of each side of the
• All manufacturers shall provide an 18 month warranty for their systems and
• Minor Electrical Building Services Works
• TO: Irish Blood Transfusion Service
• RE: Request for Tenders for Minor Electrical Building Services Works 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.

• Existing Building - Lighting & Emergency Lighting Upgrade
• New LED Lighting replacing existing fluorescent modular fittings generally made up of
• New emergency lighting replacing existing
• Existing Building – Fire Alarm Upgrade

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.; 10 Provision of Public Liability Insurance (€6.5M; 11 Provision of Employers Liability Insurance (€13.5M
• 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.
• 10 Provision of Public Liability Insurance (€6.5M
• 11 Provision of Employers Liability Insurance (€13.5M

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:
• Value: not disclosed (eTenders placeholder)
• The Contractor shall allow for a site visit by the Commissioner a minimum of 10
• shall be submitted to the Engineer for approval at least 4 weeks prior to the
• eadline for submitting Requests for Clarifications shall be 10 days prior to the
• [Electrical 24135-Tender RFT (C).pdf] Status: Tender
• connection with the procurement process shall be conducted through the etenders website.

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 12 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)
• € 1.4 Manufacturers and equipment drawings
• Manufactured from high quality sheet steel to EN 10130 and hot dipped deep galvanised (min 85µm)
• EN 10346 ‘Continuously Hot-Dip Coated Steel Flat Products – Technical Delivery
• EN ISO 1461 ‘Hot Dip Galvanized Coatings on Fabricated Iron and Steel Articles –
• participation in a prescribed criminal organisation, or
• 4. The Tenderer has fulfilled its obligations relating to the payment of taxes or social security
• to my business/firm/company/partnership being excluded from participation in this or future tenders,

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: Electrical 24135-Tender RFT (C).pdf, RFT (C).pdf] Status: Tender, RFT.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: RFT (C).pdf] shall be necessary to return, schedule). The, schedule, must be restricted to a maximum of 125.