Geotechnical Investigation Contract - N13 Bridgend to County Boundary (TEN-T) Route Improvement Project

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Donegal County Council_1193 ran this procurement for “Geotechnical Investigation Contract - N13 Bridgend to County Boundary (TEN-T) Route Improvement Project” 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 and/or at least one of its managerial staff must have at least 4 hours every two years in 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 4 hours every two years in health and safety training for PSCS services (i
• arrangements and their implementation.
• The Employer, subject to constraints as a public authority, and the Contractor must support
• The Contractor is responsible for the safety and stability of the Works, and of all operations
• access routes to and through the Site, and any required maintenance and upgrading of them,
• facilities, power, water, and other services it requires to complete the Investigation, other than
• on the supply under this contract in addition to the Price.
• 4. any VAT arising on the supply under this contract that is chargeable at 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 Contractor’s programme showing the order in which the Contractor will do the
• them as desirable for efficient performance, and in particular so that its programme shows

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 employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any ,500,000 for any one event; ) Minimum indemnity limit for employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 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 employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any ,500,000 for any one event
• ) Minimum indemnity limit for employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event
• 4 Professional Indemnity Insurance required Minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance annual aggregate €1,500,000
• 5 Maximum levels of excess for * insurance of Investigation €10,000[10] * public liability €6,500[11] * employer’s liability €6,500[12] * professional indemnity €70,000[13] 13
• Turnover Requirement Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Ground Investigation Contract[15] € 200,000 CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: Cl

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)
• This project number must correspond to the project number given in Appendix B1 List of Previous Works projects for which there is a Certifi
• This project number must correspond to the project number given in Appendix B1
• [N13B-RODA-VGT-SW_AE-CD-VT-30003.pdf] Roughan & O’Donovan
• [N13B-RODA-VGT-SW_AE-CD-VT-30003.pdf] -RODA-VGT-SW_AE
• [N13B-RODA-VGT-SW_AE-CD-VT-30003.pdf] Tender and Schedules

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)
• nt and continues for as long as, under the Construction Regulations, the Client is required to have a project supervisor for the construction stage for the Project, unless the appointment is terminated earlier
• it is insured by insurances in the same terms as the insurances the Contractor is required to have under clauses 12
• insured by insurances in the same terms as the insurances the Contractor is required to have under clauses 12
• within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s Representative must give the above
• When a payment is to be made, not later than 5 days after the date agreed between the
• 14 days of receiving the payment claim notice,
• the Investigation will terminate 14 days after the notice was given, or a differ

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: N13B-RODA-VGT-SW_AE-CD-VT-30003.pdf, QW2-Part-1-v2.1-18-11-2024-09-01-2025.docx, Appendix B1 List of Previous Works projects for which there is a Certifi.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix B1, Schedule, SCHEDULES.