Development of 49 No. Residential Units at 28-34 Braithwaite Street and 63-66 Pimlico, Dublin 8. Consultancy Appointment of an Integrated Technical Advisory Team.

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Focus Housing Association clg ran this procurement for “Development of 49 No. Residential Units at 28-34 Braithwaite Street and 63-66 Pimlico, Dublin 8. Consultancy Appointment of an Integrated Technical Advisory Team.” 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:

• 0% of gross fee turnover, or €5,000 whichever is greater From start to completion of the Services; and six years
• eath, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Services
• Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13,000,000 None From start to completion of the Services
• chamber covers and invert levels, drain invert levels, water and utility services etc
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• entation, input into detailed output specification, team member and supervision/monitoring* *Building Services Engineering services: including p
• entation, input into detailed output specification, team member and supervision/monitoring* *Quantity Surveying services: including cost advice,
• Anticipated Service Contract Period (months/years): 204 weeks
• Consultancy Services: The Appointed Team will Develop Initial Plans in Preparation for Tendering a Design & Build (D&B) Contractor. The Team will Assist the Employers with the Tender Process and Monitor the Detailed Design, Construction and Defects Period for each of the Team Disciplines. Integrated Technical Advisory Team to Include: Lead Consultant, Architectural, Structural & Civil Engineering, Building Services Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Fire Safety Consultant, DAC Consultant, Project Supervisor Design Process, Assigned Certifier and Employer’s Representative Services. Regarding Stages (ii) to (v) For Proposed Works: Development of 49 No. Residential Units At: 28-34 Braithwaite Street and 63-66 Pimlico, Dublin 8 For: Focus Housing Association
• 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 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.

• tractor’s thermal strategy and the Contractor’s provisional BER certificates to ensure compliance with the performance specification
• [ITT-S2b-v1.6-09-02-2022 (1).docx] , of the tenders; * not inviting a Tenderer to proceed further; * not furnishing an Applicant with additional information; or * abandoning the competition. 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-v1.6-09-02-2022 (1).docx] connection with the above, the Contracting Authority may disclose personal data to various recipients including: * Applicant’s organisation; * other members of the Applicant’s consortium (if applicable); * the Contracting Authority’s third party service providers, such as financial, legal and technical advisors; and * regulators or oversight bodies. 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. Any data subjects in respect of which the Employer holds or processes personal data have rights in relation to their personal data, including the right to request access to their data and, in certain circumstances to request rectification, erasure or restriction of the processing of their personal data. All such data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with the Irish supervisory authority, the Data Protection Commission.

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 € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Servic; Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13,000,000 None From start to completion of the
• 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 € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Servic
• Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13,000,000 None From start to completion of the
• S PSDP NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Insurances NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN Employer's Liability Insurance €13m NaN Y Y Y Y N Y Y NaN Public Liability Insurance €6.5m NaN Y Y Y Y N Y Y N

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)
• Number and type of Electronic Copies of Tender: 1 through eTenders
• 1.1 This procedure 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.
• [ITT-S2b-v1.6-09-02-2022 (1).docx] be included in the contract: * The Conditions of Engagement * Form of Tender and Schedules A and B attached * Any content of other documents identified in Schedule A * Where required, a request for the detailed breakdown of the tender price. * Details of quality submission required. Also included in the Contract but not part of the documentation being made available to Applicants is the Letter of Acceptance which the Contracting Authority will issue at award stage. Any post tender clarifications that are to be part of the Contract will be included in that letter. (ii) All other documents, including Documents for information purposes only issued to Applicants, will not form part of the Contract. This includes (but is not limited to): * The invitation letter * Suitability Assessment Questionnaire(s) * These Instructions * Any information submitted with tenders and not called for in these Instructions or in post-tender clarifications.
• 1.4 Data Protection 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. Where the Applicant provides personal data relating to third parties, the Applicant must ensure that such third parties are made aware of the contents of this Data Protection Notice in full. 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
• [ITT-S2b-v1.6-09-02-2022 (1).docx] 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: 6 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 € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Servic
• If hourly rates are not provided in The Form of Tender & Schedule Pg 4 (Rates for Time Charges), €50/hr will be entered for each team participant, for the purpose of completing the
• Technician (80 hours) If hourly rates are not provided in The Form of Tender & Schedule Pg 4 (Rates for Time Charges), €80/hr will be entered for each team participant, for the purpose of completing the
• eath, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Services
• IT IS HEREBY AGREED in consideration of the payment of ten euro (€10.00) by the HFA to the Consultant (receipt and sufficiency of which the Consultant
• Anticipated Service Contract Period (months/years): 204 weeks
• • expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender

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.
• 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 — 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-v1.6-09-02-2022 (1).docx, FTS9-v1.9-31-03-2023-1 (2).docx, Schedule Pg 4 (Rates for Time Charges), €50/hr will be entered for each team participant.
• 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: Schedule Pg 4 (Rates for Time Charges), €80/hr will be entered for each team participant, schedule of works – 5 weeks, ITT-S2b-v1.6-09-02-2022 (1).docx] Instruction to Tenderers.