Ballyalbany Bridge Active travel scheme

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Monaghan County Council ran this procurement for “Ballyalbany Bridge Active travel scheme” 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:

• ment, implementation and maintainance with daily traffic /pedestrians and cyclists with a minimum construction value of €500,000
• Where the estimated value of the contract is above €5m (Services) and €15m (Works)
• The contractor and/or at least one of its managerial staff must have at least 8 hours annual health and safety training in the provision of PSCS services (i
• The person or person responsible for providing the PSCS services must have at least 8 hours annual health and safety training in PSCS services (i
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• 3.1.4 Location of existing services – water, electrici
• Tenderer Specialist (Applicable to PW-CF2 or PW-CF4 where the Tenderer is required to propose Specialists to be named in the Contract). An entity proposed by the Tenderer to undertake specialist areas of works or services described in Section 2.6.1 of the Project Particulars. Note: a Tenderer Specialist may be the Tenderer itself (or an any member of an Tenderer), or a subcontractor to the Tenderer. Tenderer Specialists must always complete the relevant Specialist Questionnaires issued by the Contracting Authority with this Questionnaire.
• CPV Code Common Procurement Vocabulary is a single classification system for public procurement aimed at standardising the
• CPV Code Common Procurement Vocabulary is a single classification system for public procurement aimed at standardising the references used by contracting authorities and entities to describe the subject of procurement contracts.
• PW-CF11 Term Maintenance and Refurbishment Contract.
• Specialist Means an entity to be named in the Contract by the Employer and/or the Contractor to undertake specialists areas of work or services.
• Specialist Questionnaire (Applies to PW-CF2 or PW-CF4 only where Tenderers are required to propose Specialists to be named in the Contract). Means a QW3(a) (Works Specialist) and/or QC1 (Service Provider) suitability assessment questionnaire(s) issued with this Questionnaire, to be completed by the relevant Tenderer Specialist. 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.

• • The Programme is to have a minimum level of detail as outlined as follows: (1) identify all key activites for construction including construction phasing plan *(2) identify all key milestones and Elements of works within the phase
• 3.1.4 Location of existing services – water, electrici
• Consortium An association or combination of businesses or individuals who combine with the purpose of delivering a single objective.
• Tenderers may use an existing eESPD, provided however that their circumstances have not changed since the eESPD was originally completed.

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.; The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,500,000[19] *; * The excess as stated here: 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. Cover provided on an annual aggregate
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — Turnover Requirement Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Civil Engineering category[17] € 2,000,000 CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: W
• 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.
• Turnover Requirement Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Civil Engineering category[17] € 2,000,000 CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: W
• The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,500,000[19] *
• • The excess as stated here: 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. Cover provided on an annual aggregate
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 6,500,000[21] Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the will bear the cost: € 10,000 *No excess is permitted in respect
• Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,000[22] Entitles issuing

5. Award criteria & scoring

• The excess as stated here: Maximum permissible excess on Profess 2% not stated not stated | e in any one claim below which the will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2 | 2% | not stated | not stated | | % - 39% Failed to provide a satisfactory response The Candidate must achieve a m | 39% | not stated | not stated | | Furthermore, the Candidate must achieve a minimum of 40% in each of the Technica | 40% | not stated | not stated | The documents indicated a staged process (qualification, then tender). Any explicit MEAT split is captured above where a numeric line was visible; otherwise it remained not specified in the provided text extract.

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) — 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)
• ( E) At least one of the projects submitted shall have had a construction nett value at tender award of at least €500,000
• This project number must correspond to the project number given in Appendix B1
• Number and type of Electronic Copies of Tender: One Via Etenders
• mits as shown in Volume A – Part 1 Specification Appendix 1/17. Days and Times
• [Appendix-C-Bankers-Letter.docx] [on Applicant headed paper]

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 5 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)
• CA Note: Where an IPI Measure is in place and works are greater than €15m in value, the CA must select “Yes”
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 0
• Within 3 months after receipt of the Contractor’s final statement, the Employer’s
• lace arrangements to complete the Works within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s Representative shall issue this certificate as
• e Tenderer’s current principal banker dated within the past 3 months stating the duration of the relationshi
• cation, we expect that insurance cover can be issued within 4 weeks of the receipt by us of the relevant ap
• It is anticipated that the duration of the works will be 5 months

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: not later than 5 days after the date agreed between the
• Within 14 days of receipt of the payment claim notice

TENDER DOCUMENTS [Appendix-C-Bankers-Letter.docx, Appendix-C-Bankers-Letter.docx, Ballyalbany Bridge SAQ - QW2-Part-1.docx.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: Contract Notice Reference for the main works contract .
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Public Works Contract for Building

[Ballyalbany Bridge SAQ - QW2-Part-1.docx, ~$T-W2-v2.5-01-08-2023-1.docx, FTS-5-v2.6-17-07-2023-1.docx.