Longford Circular Economy Centre of Excellence - Request for Tender Feasibility Study

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Longford County Council ran this procurement for “Longford Circular Economy Centre of Excellence - Request for Tender Feasibility Study” 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:

• or as a service for members of the public
• • Deliver Dedicated Education/Training Programmes to support job creation and
• industry operators to determine ongoing needs/gaps and creating services/products to
• capacity and capability in relation to delivery of the service. The tenderers will need to
• capacity to provide the required services.
• offering assurance to client – well supported.
• [Feasability Study Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] well supported.
• development and implementation of the Centre.
• /capabilities, innovation/ research and support/ resources. This should set out /further
• shall also include indicative capital costings, layout, facilities, services and all detail as
• selected should be of high quality, low maintenance and durable. The selection of a
• o Have high quality and low maintenance external finishes and detailing and shall be 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 Longford Circular Economy Centre of Excellence project is co-funded by the
• Government of Ireland and the European Union through the EU Just Transition Fund
• • Deliver Dedicated Education/Training Programmes to support job creation and
• Develop education/awareness programmes

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

• Turnover requirement — not specified for this tender
• Insurance — not specified for this tender
• 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

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:
• Value: not disclosed (eTenders placeholder)
• contracts submitted must *be of a minimum value of €80,000 (exc
• [Feasability Study Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] Longford Circular Economy Centre of
• [Feasability Study Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] uman
• Please refer to Appendix 1 for a full Specification of Requirements.
• Tenderers are required to submit a fully completed Tender Response Document [TRD] as

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 6 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)
• • An Incubation and Research Unit working in partnership with other agencies and
• industry operators to determine ongoing needs/gaps and creating services/products to
• this tender and company overview as well as information on sub-contractors and
• provide a multi-disciplinary team with the necessary competencies and expertise to cover
• full compliance with the principles of equal treatment and transparency and avoid any
• than the evaluation team [membership listed at Appendix 1] without the permission of the
• the multiplication of the unit price and the quantity, the unit price as quoted will

9. Risks, red flags & unusuals

• Numeric qualification gates were only partially visible, so eligibility certainty required full pack review.
• 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 — specialist operator with compliant procurement governance and evidencable experience.
• 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: Feasability Study Request for Tender FINAL.pdf, scored from 100 marks

[Feasability Study Request for Tender FINAL.pdf, Appendix 1 for a full Specification of Requirements..

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: Contract notice..
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix 1., Appendix 1 of this, Appendix 1.