Mary Immaculate College - Thurles Window Refurbishment 2025 and 4 year Single-Operator Framework

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Mary Immaculate College ran this procurement for “Mary Immaculate College - Thurles Window Refurbishment 2025 and 4 year Single-Operator Framework.” 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 successful Tenderer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access
• status by the Employer. By supplying these numbers
• status by the Employer. By supplying these numbers the successful Tenderer
• 2B submitted with its Tender that the parent company will supply a parent
• operations subject to Relevant Contracts Tax (and therefore to reverse-charge 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.

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• hts in each window; where rot has occurred, the existing timber box frame & casing at each side of window is to be cut back to a
• ith the cill externally, in these locations the existing timber box frame and casing at each
• refundable to all tenderers that submit bona fide tenders that are not

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: €6,500,0006 for any one event, but this limit may be;  Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,0007 for any one event
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — Minimum Turnover Area of Work / Business: Overall Average Turnover to include other areas of business Minimum Average Turnover: Maximum Average Turnover: General Construction /Civil Engineering CA Entry (if applicable) €1,000,000.00 per annum CA Entry (if applicable) Su
• 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: €6,500,0006 for any one event, but this limit may be
•  Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,0007 for any one event
•  Maximum excess for Public liability: €10,0009 in respect of property damage only
• Minimum Turnover Area of Work / Business: Overall Average Turnover to include other areas of business Minimum Average Turnover: Maximum Average Turnover: General Construction /Civil Engineering CA Entry (if applicable) €1,000,000.00 per annum CA Entry (if applicable) Su
• (i) The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for - Not Applicable €0 Suitability Assessment Questionnaire – W

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) — 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)
• (i) The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for - Not Applicable €0 Suitability Assessment Questionnaire – W
• Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident below which the Works Contractor will bear the cost: €13,000,000 Suitability Assessment Questionnaire – W
• the Pricing Document is more than €500.
• [ITT Thurles Windows May 2025.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers
• [ITT Thurles Windows May 2025.pdf] will have any liability in connection with these

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 4 year. 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)
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 10,000.00 14
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 10,000
• ory application, we expect that a bond can be issued within 4 weeks of the receipt by us of the relevant ap
• (b) expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender
• Sum for the subsequent period (noted as 450 days) stated in the form of bond in the
• The Bond to remain valid for 18 months post practical
• or any part of it and may terminate the process or any part of

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: ITT Thurles Windows May 2025.pdf, ITT Thurles Windows May 2025.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers, ITT-W2 v 2.2 06/06/2018.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: contract notice for the Works to etenders.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: ITT-W2 V2.2, ITT Thurles Windows May 2025.pdf] will have any liability in connection with these, ITT Thurles Windows May 2025.pdf] inform themselves of and observe all laws concern.