Provision of Construction Project Management Services

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

National College of Art and Design ( NCAD ) ran this procurement for “Provision of Construction Project Management Services” 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:

• Title: Provision of Construction Project Management Services
• 0% of gross fee turnover, or €5,000 whichever is greater From start to completion of the Services; and six years
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• Anticipated Service Contract Period (months/years): 60 Months
• Open Procedure for CONSULTANCY SERVICES
• FOR USE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF ENGAGEMENT FOR CONSULTANCY SERVICES
• for Consultancy Services for the use with the Conditions of Engagement
• for Consultancy Services where Hourly Rates are to be Tendered
• [ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] The Contracting Authority is making these documents available to Applicants for the Services Contract identified in the Particulars, for tendering purposes only. These documents must not be used for any other purpose.
• In no circumstances shall the Contracting Authority, its advisers, consultants, servants and/or agents incur any liability or responsibility for the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any documentation executed, or which may be executed, in relation to the Services. Any costs associated with the submission of a tender are the sole responsibility of the Applicant and will not be reimbursed.
• No reliance shall be placed on any information or statements contained in these documents, and no representation or warranty, express or implied, is or will be made in relation to such information. Without prejudice to the foregoing, neither the Contracting Authority nor its advisers, consultants, contractors, servants and/or agents shall have any liability or responsibility in relation to the legality, validity, effectiveness, enforceability, accuracy, adequacy or completeness of such information or any statements made in relation to such Services. Applicants must make their own assessment of the adequacy, accuracy, and completeness of these documents.
• Applicants should note that any reference in these Instructions to a notional capital value for the project or a notional number of hours for additional services is purely for the purposes of assessment, as described in section 9 of these Instructions. The Contracting Authority makes no representation that such figures are an accurate estimate of the value of the project or the number of hours of additional services that may be required ( 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.

• Nothing contained in these Instructions is, or shall be relied upon as, a representation of fact or promise as to the future. Any summaries or descriptions of documents or contractual arrangements contained in any part of these Instructions cannot be and are not intended to be comprehensive, nor any substitute for the underlying documentation (whether existing or to be concluded in the future), and are in all respects qualified in their entirety by reference to them.
• [ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] not intended to be comprehensive, nor any substitute for the underlying documentation (whether existing or to be concluded in the future), and are in all respects qualified in their entirety by reference to them.
• If the Applicant is unsuccessful as part of the tender process, such personal data will be retained until three years after the conclusion of the tender process or the award of the contract to the successful Tenderer, whichever is later. If the Applicant is successful, and a contract is awarded to the Applicant at the end of the tender process, such personal data will be retained in accordance with the Contracting Authority’s record management and retention policy, a copy of which can be obtained from the Employer upon request.
• [ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] Project Management (PM) Services for the National College of Art & Design Campus Development Programme.

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.; Public Liability for death, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6.5M (as stipulated in the Suitability Asses; Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13M (as stipulated in the Suitability Asses
• 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.
• Public Liability for death, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6.5M (as stipulated in the Suitability Asses
• Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13M (as stipulated in the Suitability Asses

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:
• [ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] The Contracting Authority has sent a contract notice and tender documents for the Services to etenders and where appropriate a similar notice has been simultaneously sent to the Office for Official Publications of the EC for publication in the OJEU. The notice and tender documents are addressed to all those who wish to participate in a tender competition for the Services described in the “Particulars”.
• These documents set out the award criteria and the award process which will be followed by the Contracting Authority in making the assessment of whether Applicants are suitable to provide the Services and, from those Applicants deemed to be suitable, which tender is the most economically advantageous. These documents also set out the information which must be supplied by Applicants. Tenders must be submitted in accordance with these Instructions. Any tenders not complying with these Instructions may be rejected by the Contracting Authority, whose decision in the matter shall be final.
• • Suitability Assessment Questionnaires
• • Any information submitted with tenders and not called for in these Instructions or in post-tender clarifications.
• [ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] As part of this Competition, the Applicant may (at various stages) provide personal data relating to the Applicant or its organisation, employees or other third parties. In this Suitability Assessment Questionnaire (“this Questionnaire”), “Data Protection Laws” means all applicable data protection law including, with effect from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and the Data Protection Act 2018; and the terms ‘personal data’, ‘process’, ‘controller’, ‘processor’ and ‘data subject’ shall have the meanings given to them under Data Protection Law.
• The Applicant, as controller in respect of any personal data provided by it as part of this competition, is required to confirm in the declaration required under Appendix 1 to this Questionnaire that all data subjects whose personal data is provided by the Applicant have consented to the processing of such personal data by the Applicant, the Contracting Authority, the evaluation team and the supplier of the etenders.gov.ie website, for the purposes of the participation of the applicant in this competition or that the Applicant otherwise has a legal basis for providing such personal data to the Contracting Authority for the purposes of its participation in this competition.

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)
• Public Liability for death, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6.5M (as stipulated in the Suitability Asses
• Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13M (as stipulated in the Suitability Asses
• eath, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6.5M (as stipulated in the Suitability Assessment Process) € 10k for any one
• eath, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6.5M (as stipulated in the Suitability Assessment Process) € 10k for any one (1) a
• Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13M (as stipulated in the Suitability Assessment Process) None From start to co
• time might be structured between the main term, and the number and duration of extensions - if required
• Anticipated Service Contract Period (months/years): 60 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.
• 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-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx, ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] Instruction to Tenderers, ITT-S2(b) v2.0.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: contract notice and tender documents for the Services to etenders and where.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] The Contracting Authority is making these documents a, ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] a notional number of hours for additional services is, ITT-S2b-v2.0 SB 250225 .docx] not intended to be comprehensive, nor any substitute.