Ennistimon Hub Office Development

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Clare County Council ran this procurement for “Ennistimon Hub Office Development” 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:

• Where the estimated value of the contract is above €5m (Services) and €15m (Works)
• 9. Location of all electrical services to be agreed
• The Controls system shall include a 12 months warranty period, commencing from the is
• 5. Location of all electrical services to be agreed
• Documentation in support of the Technical Merit Criteria.
• The evidence required to pass this criterion is details of the relevant technicians or technical bodies upon whom the Applicant can call on in order to carry out the work or whom the Applicant can use in regards to quality control. Applicants must also provide evidence of a safety management system.
• Evidence in support of the declarations in Appendix 1 and any requirements set out above must be provided when requested by the Contracting Authority.In place of documentary evidence, Applicants may provide third party certification that their safety management system is in accordance with OHSAS 18001 or equivalent. Certified membership of Safe-T-Cert may be deemed equivalent for the purposes of this criterion.
• any form or stored in any retrieval system of any nature
• installation of services and production of working drawings.
• RESTRICTED PROFILE MASTER KEY SYSTEM TO BE IMPLEMENTED
• system with thermal break designed and
• In-situ RC column to support stair landing 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.

• • Health and Safety Policy and Organisation;
• • a copy of our current general health and safety policy; * a general Health and Safety policy document appropriate to a Health and Safety led Construction Management role;
• Connect to existing public sewer to Civil Engineer's
• Locate Existing surface water culvert and

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.; ssional Indemnity Insurance required for € CA Entry[17] 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[19] 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
• 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: General Construction/Civil Engineering category[15] € 2,500,000 CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: Cl
• 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: General Construction/Civil Engineering category[15] € 2,500,000 CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: Cl
• ssional Indemnity Insurance required for € CA Entry[17] 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[19] 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[20] Entitles issuing

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) — 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:
• te draft copy of the manual must be submitted not less than 2 weeks before the
• raft copies of the drawings must be submitted not less than 2 weeks before the date of
• [Letter of Invitation to Tender.pdf] 22nd April 2025
• Queries with regard to this tender should be communicated through the E-Tenders portal only.
• Tenders should be submitted through the E-Tenders portal and comprise the following:
• The tender return deadline will be published on E-Tenders.

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 10 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)
• Pipes should be fixed within 300mm either side of a 90⁰ bend
• Provide additional ties within 225 mm of reveals of unbonded opening in every
• 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
• d stated in the the form of bond in the Works Requirements (450 days thereafter)
• The Bond shall expire 450 days after the date of Substantial Completio
• [Volume D - Additional Information.zip] [ZIP containing 7 files]

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.
• 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 — not clearly specified in extract.
• 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: Letter of Invitation to Tender.pdf, 3.4.1-HS-Works-Contractor-v3.0-28-07-2023 (2).docx, 24.2754 E401_Security_1st Floor-A1.pdf.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: 23-1083-T-11.pdf, 24.2754 Builders Drawing Register.pdf, 23-1083-T-10.pdf.