NMBI Facilities Management Services
Value
€900k
Deadline
21 Apr
21 Apr 2025
Value
€900k
Deadline
21 Apr
Provision of facilities management services for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
Provision of facilities management services for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
Bidder profile
Mid-sized to large firms with experience in public sector facilities management and compliance processes.
Risks & flags
- Turnover threshold
- Two-step qualification process
- Ambiguity in ITT requirements
Briefing
AI-generated analysis of the documents. Check the official notice and any amendments for current submission details.
1. At a glance
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Buyer | Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland |
| Title | NMBI Facilities Management Services |
| CPV / category | services |
| Estimated value | 900000.00 |
| Per-year (if multi-year) | not stated |
| Procedure type | not stated |
| Lots | not stated |
| Location | Ireland |
| Contract length | 36 months |
| Submission deadline | 2025-04-21T14:00:00+00:00 |
| Go-live / start | not stated |
2. Scope of Work
Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland ran this procurement for “NMBI Facilities 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: NMBI Facilities Management Services
- be required to hold for the term of the Services Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7M Public Liability €6
- hority estimates that the expenditure on the Services to be covered by the proposed Services Contractmay amount to some €900,000 (excl
- Tenderers must provide evidence of financial stability – tenderers must demonstrate an annual turnover of greater than €400,000 for Facilities Management related services
- rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
- on (the “Services Contract”) will be issued for a term of 36 months (“the Term”)
- [20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] Request for Tenders dated 16th March 2025
- [20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] Part 1: Introduction
- [20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx]
- 1.1 Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (the “Contracting Authority”) invites tenders (“Tenders”) to this request for tenders (“RFT”) from economic operators (“Tenderers”) for the provision of the services as described in Appendix 1 to this RFT (the “Services”).
- 1.2 In summary, the Services comprise: Facilities Management services.
- 1.4 This public procurement competition (the “Competition”) will be conducted in accordance with the open procedure under the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016 (Statutory Instrument 284 of 2016) (the “Regulations”). Any contract that may result from this Competition (the “Services Contract”) will be issued for a term of 36 months (“the Term”). 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.
- 1.7 Contracting Authority policy seeks to encourage participation on a fair and equal basis by Small and Medium Enterprises (“SME”s) in this Competition. SMEs that believe the scope of this Competition is beyond their technical or business capacity are encouraged, subject to paragraph 2.5, to explore the possibilities of forming relationships with other SMEs or
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.; be required to hold for the term of the Services Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7M Public Liability €6; 5M Professional Indemnity €2.5M Cyber Security €5M 2
- 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.
- be required to hold for the term of the Services Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7M Public Liability €6
- 5M Professional Indemnity €2.5M Cyber Security €5M 2
5. Award criteria & scoring
| Criterion | Weight (%) | Sub-criteria | Pass/fail threshold |
|---|---|---|---|
| [20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] sufficient to demons | 10% | not stated | not stated |
| 4 Technical Merit of the Human Resources Proposed 10% 1,000 600 10% not stated not stated | |||
| 6 Ultimate Cost 40% 4,000 N/A 40% not stated not stated | |||
| The Services Contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically ad 15% not stated not stated | |||
| The documents indicated a staged process (qualification, then tender). Any explicit MEAT split is captured above where a numeric line was visible; otherwise it remained not specified in the provided text extract. |
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:
- Appendix 1: Requirements and Specifications
- Appendix 4: Declaration as to Personal Circumstances of Tenderer
- Appendix 6: Confidentiality Agreement
- 1.1 Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (the “Contracting Authority”) invites tenders (“Tenders”) to this request for tenders (“RFT”) from economic operators (“Tenderers”) for the provision of the services as described in Appendix 1 to this RFT (the “Services”).
- [20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the “General Data Protection Regulation”), and any guidelines and codes of practice issued by the Office of the Data Protection Commission or other supervisory authority for data protection in Ireland from time to time. The Contracting Authority will be a Data Controller (where Data Controller has the meaning given under the Data Protection Laws) in respect of any Personal Data (where Personal Data has the meaning given under the Data Protection Laws) required to be provided by the Tenderer in response to this RFT. The Tenderer, as Data Controller in respect of any Personal Data provided by it in its Tender, is required to confirm in the statement required under paragraph 2.4 below that all Data Subjects (where Data Subject has the meaning given under the Data Protection Laws) whose Personal Data is provided by the Tenderer have consented to the processing of such Personal Data by the Tenderer, the Contracting Authority, the Evaluation Team and the supplier of the etenders.gov.ie website, for the purposes of the participation of the Tenderer in this Competition or that the Tenderer otherwise has a legal basis for providing such Personal Data to the Contracting Authority for the purposes of its participation in this Competition.
- [20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] markets and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union economic operators, goods and services to the public procurement and concession markets of third countries (International Procurement Instrument – IPI), and to their obligation to comply therewith. In particular, tenderers and candidates should note in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2022/1031, the obligations for a Contracting Authority in the context of a procurement procedure where the EU Commission has adopted an IPI measure. Tenderers are referred to the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Foreign Subsidies distorting the Internal Market, in addition to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1441, and their obligation to comply therewith. In particular, tenderers and candidates should note the requirements in Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 relating to the prior notification or declaration of foreign financial contributions, where the estimated value of the public procurement procedure is equal to or greater than the applicable financial thresholds set out therein. In that regard, Tenderers and Candidates are referred to Appendix 3A of the RFT.
7. Key dates & process
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| RFT issued | not specified |
| Clarification deadline | not specified |
| Mandatory site visit | not specified |
| Tender deadline (date + time) | 2025-04-21T14:00:00+00:00 |
| Expected award | not specified |
| Contract start | not specified |
| Go-live / mobilisation | not stated |
| Date surfaced in documents | 2025-04-21T14:00:00+00:00 |
| Date surfaced in documents | 12 March 2001 |
| Date surfaced in documents | 31 July 2014 |
| Date surfaced in documents | April 2025 |
8. Contract terms that matter
Contract duration in the extract: 36 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)
- be required to hold for the term of the Services Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €12.7M Public Liability €6
- NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED in consideration of the sum of €2.00 (the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged by the Contractor) as follows:
- on (the “Services Contract”) will be issued for a term of 36 months (“the Term”)
- e right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 2 such extension or e
- e right to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 2 such extensions per
- 12 months with a maximum of 2 such extensions per
- ontinues for 30 calendar days either Party may terminate at 14 days notice
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: 20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx, RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] Request for Tenders dated 16th March 2, RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx] Part 1: Introduction.
- eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
- Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
- Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix 1: Requirements and Specifications, Appendix 2: Pricing Schedule, Appendix 3: Tenderer’s Statement.
This tender has been awarded
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- Apleona Ireland Limited · 25 Jun 2025
- Neylons Facility Management Ltd · 05 Jun 2021
Can you bid?
Minimum turnover
€400,000
Public liability insurance
€6,000,000
Professional indemnity insurance
€2,500,000
Scoring
Most Economically Advantageous Tender
Lots (1)
Provision of facilities management services for NMBI premises in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Documents (1)
20250316 NMBI RFT for Facilities Management Services.docx
150.3 KB · RFT / Invitation to Tender
Original notice text
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland seeks tenders for facilities management services, including operational contract implementation and sustained service execution over a 36-month period.
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Value
€900k
Deadline
21 Apr
Location
Ireland
Procedure
Open
Clarification
11 Apr 2025
eTenders ID
5301209
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