Kilkenny County Council CFT Preparation of the Kilkenny City Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Kilkenny County Council_1185 ran this procurement for “Kilkenny County Council CFT Preparation of the Kilkenny City Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan” 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:

• cycling and public transport journeys per day by 2030 (€360 million granted to support the
• The school bus service transports 1900 students to school in Kilkenny City, 1600 of the
• for Consultancy Services (Technical)
• Standard Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical)
• Termination of PSDP Services 10
• 1 The Consultant shall perform the Services identified in Schedule B, elsewhere in the Contract,
• 3 with the skill, care, diligence, efficiency and professional conduct reasonably to be expected from a consultant with the qualifications and experience suitable for the Services.
• 4 No contents of the Contract [whether within 1.5, 6, 7] amount to a guarantee by the Consultant of suitability for purpose of the design or other Services.
• 6 The Consultant has authority to perform the Services [but not to change them].
• 8 for any Services as employer’s representative under a Project construction contract,
• 11 Client’s right to the Consultant’s Management Services;
• 27 The Client may refuse to accept any proposed substitute and in such a case, the Consultant shall submit to the Client further names and curricula vitae of other proposed substitute personnel within a period specified by the Client but no proposed substitute shall be engaged in respect of the Services unless and until approved by the Client. 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.

• adopted Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy (RSES) for the Southern Region and the second largest
• greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality. The Programme for Government ‘Our Shared Future’
• policy. Emissions from the transport sector accounted for 20.4% of Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019.

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) — 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)
• 27 The Client may refuse to accept any proposed substitute and in such a case, the Consultant shall submit to the Client further names and curricula vitae of other proposed substitute personnel within a period specified by the Client but no proposed substitute shall be engaged in respect of the Services unless and until approved by the Client.
• [KLTP Optimisation and Refinement Report_Final.pdf] Kilkenny Local Transport Plan
• [KLTP Optimisation and Refinement Report_Final.pdf] Western Network Modelling ............................................................................................................................................ 86
• [KLTP Optimisation and Refinement Report_Final.pdf] the centre of the Local

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)
• It has received approval in principal for €6.15m through URDF for public realm and community
• the other] by termination notified at least 14 and at most 28 days after the notice
• for Client’s termination at will is at least 14 and at most 28 days after the notice
• or Client’s termination under 2-9 is at least 1 and at most 48 days after the notice
• [KCC SUMP Tender.zip] Content from the zip file /var/folders/j7/ntc0q6551nj30444rfp25mzw0000gn/T/tmpa4qcqugz.zip:
• Suspension payments 3
• 14. TERMINATION 9

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 — 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: Conditions of Engagement.docx,

[Conditions of Engagement.docx, KLTP Optimisation and Refinement Report_Final.pdf.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedules A and B; , Schedule A. , Schedule A describes methods used in the Agreement; .