Skip to content
TenderMatch
The recorded submission deadline has passed. Find open opportunities. Check the official notice for amendments.
Awarded Professional Consultancy Services SME Suitable Framework Open

Tender No 6 Graphic Design

Value

€200k

Deadline

02 Apr

Provision of graphic design services for The Irish Air Navigation Service

SME fit: Medium Bid effort: Medium 📍 Dublin

Provision of graphic design services for The Irish Air Navigation Service

Bidder profile

Mid-sized to large firms with experience in public sector tenders and graphic design services.

Risks & flags

  • Qualification gate
  • Two-step process
  • Technical ambiguity

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 The Irish Air Navigation Service
Title Tender No 6 Graphic Design
CPV / category services
Estimated value 200000.00
Per-year (if multi-year) not stated
Procedure type not stated
Lots not stated
Location Ireland
Contract length 12 months
Submission deadline 2025-04-02T11:00:00+00:00
Go-live / start not stated

2. Scope of Work

The Irish Air Navigation Service ran this procurement for “Tender No 6 Graphic Design” 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:

  • Buyer: The Irish Air Navigation Service
  • rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate
  • rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
  • nderers must provide details of conformance (if any) to the ISO 9000 series or any other equivalent standard or system
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] A picture containing graphics, graphic design, font, screenshot Description automatically generated
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] TENDER PROCEDURE: OPEN
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] _______________________________________________________________
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] * 1. AirNav Ireland (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. The Contracting Authority, AirNav Ireland, is a commercial semi-State company responsible for the provision of air traffic management and related services in Irish-controlled airspace. The Company was incorporated on 2nd February 2023, pursuant to the Air Navigation and Transport Act 2022, following a State decision to separate out the air traffic management functions from The Irish Aviation Authority into a separate stand-alone commercial entity.
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] hran, Co. Dublin
    1. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term beyond the date of completion of the services specified in 1.4 above, for additional periods of 12 months, not to exceed two periods of 12 months, on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] 2.1 IMPORTANT NOTICES 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. Tenderers must outline their organisation’s policy on Health & Safety.
    1. Tenderers must provide a policy statement on the protection of the environment, good environmental practice and sustainability.
    1. Tenderers must provide the name, title, and contact details for the person responsible in their company for their Environmental and Sustainability policy.

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.; l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) ; Professional Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Professional Indemnity €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) 2
  • Certifications — l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) ; Professional Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Professional Indemnity €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) 2
  • 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.
  • l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand)
  • Professional Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) Professional Indemnity €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand) 2

5. Award criteria & scoring

Criterion Weight (%) Sub-criteria Pass/fail threshold
Quality not stated Methodology / implementation detail not stated in extract not stated
Price not stated Pricing basis not stated in extract 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:
  • ect to and made in accordance with the Contract at Appendix 4 days commencing from the Tender Deadline
  • Appendix 1 (Section 4) Requirements and Specifications
  • Appendix 2 (Section 5) Pricing Schedule
  • Appendix 4 Contract Terms and Conditions
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] * 1. AirNav Ireland (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”).
  • 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.

7. Key dates & process

Milestone Date
RFT issued not specified
Clarification deadline not specified
Mandatory site visit not specified
Tender deadline (date + time) 2025-04-02T11:00:00+00:00
Expected award not specified
Contract start not specified
Go-live / mobilisation not stated
Date surfaced in documents 2025-04-02T11:00:00+00:00
Date surfaced in documents 26 February 2014
Date surfaced in documents 12 March 2001
Date surfaced in documents February 2023

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 12 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)
  • l be required to hold for the term of the Contract the following insurances: Type of Insurance Indemnity Limit Employer’s Liability €13,000,000 (thirteen million) Public Liability €6,500,000 (six million five hundred thousand)
  • [RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] A picture containing graphics, graphic design, font, screenshot Description automatically generated
  • Appendix 4 Contract Terms and Conditions
    1. Any contract that may result from this Competition (the “Contract”) will be issued for a term of up to 3 years (“the Term”) subject to the conditions set out at paragraph 1.6 below.
    1. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the Term beyond the date of completion of the services specified in 1.4 above, for additional periods of 12 months, not to exceed two periods of 12 months, on the same terms and conditions, subject to the Contracting Authority’s obligations at law.
  • 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.
  • 2.3.1 Tenderers shall confirm acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of the Contract at Appendix 4 to this RFT as part of their Tender submission by signing the Tenderer’s Statement at Appendix 3. Tenderers may not amend the Contract.

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: RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx, Appendix 1 Section 4 Requirements.docx, Appendix 4 days commencing from the Tender Deadline.
  • eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
  • Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
  • Key attachments to prioritise: RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] ![A picture containing graphics, grap, RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] TENDER PROCEDURE: OPEN, RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx] __________________.

This tender has been awarded

Can you bid?

Required certifications

  • ISO 9000

Minimum turnover

€500,000

Public liability insurance

€6,500,000

Professional indemnity insurance

€6,500,000

Named standards / methodologies

ISO 9000

Lots (1)

Lot 1: Graphic Design Services

Provision of graphic design services for AirNav Ireland.

Documents (6)

DOCX

RFT 1-3 Graphic Design Services RFT 1-3.docx

89.9 KB · RFT / Invitation to Tender

XLSX

Appendix 2-section 5, Pricing Schedule Graphic Design.xlsx

20.2 KB · Pricing / BOQ / Schedule of Rates

DOCX

Appendix 1 Section 4 Requirements.docx

22.2 KB · Appendix / Annex

DOCX

Appendix 3-Tenderers Statement.docx

19.9 KB · Tender Response Template

DOC

Appendix 4 Services Contract.doc

232.0 KB

OTHER

Appendix 5 Award Criteria.odt

13.0 KB

Original notice text

The Irish Air Navigation Service seeks tenders for graphic design services, requiring implementation and sustained service execution over a 12-month contract period.

AI analysis updated 4 months ago

Bid ↗
Details

Value

€200k

Deadline

02 Apr

View on eTenders ↗

Location

Services to be provided across Ireland.

Procedure

Open

Clarification

26 Mar 2025

eTenders ID

5263925

✦ Ask AI about this tender

Ask AI

Knows this tender's documents

Is this a good fit for us?
Based on the deadline, buyer, and eligibility requirements in the tender documents, here's a quick read on fit — with citations back to the exact clause 1 so you can verify it yourself.

Example only — sign up to ask about this tender