Engineering Consultancy Services - Marine Infrastructure Improvement Options Inis Meáin

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Galway County Council ran this procurement for “Engineering Consultancy Services - Marine Infrastructure Improvement Options Inis Meáin” 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: Engineering Consultancy Services - Marine Infrastructure Improvement Options Inis Meáin
• 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 Service
• (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 1,000,000[12] € 1,250,000[13] Maximum level o
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 6500000[14] Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the Service Providerwill bear the cost: € 10,000 * No excess is permitted in respec
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• Engineering Consultancy services to prepare a Preliminary Business Case, incorporating a Strategic Assessment, for Marine Infrastructure Improvement Options at Inis Meáin, Aran Islands, Co. Galway
• confirm that for those Qualification Criteria in the Questionnaire, where the response type is marked “Declaration Required”, supporting documentation to substantiate the declaration made at b) above will, where requested, promptly and within the timeframe specified, be provided;
• declare that the Applicant is not guilty of misrepresentation in supplying or failing to supply the information requested in response to the Questionnaire.
• The Provision of Engineering Consultancy services to prepare a Preliminary Business Case,
• Standard Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical)
• Tender & Schedule for the Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical)
• Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical) Non-binding monetary references in the source were treated as context only and were not used as qualification thresholds.

3. Background & buyer context

The extract showed a structured PQQ-to-ITT sequence intended to shortlist capable bidders before full award-stage submission. Programme and policy framing was only partially visible, but continuity and modernisation drivers were evident in the procurement design.

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 Service; Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13,000,000 None From start to completion of the S
• 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 Service
• Employers’ Liability for death, injury, to employees € 13,000,000 None From start to completion of the S
• (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 1,000,000[12] € 1,250,000[13] Maximum level o
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 6500000[14] Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the Service Providerwill bear the cost: € 10,000 * No excess is permitted in respec
• Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,000[15] CA Entry: Specif

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)
• demonstrating the successful delivery of previous comparable assessments for a minimum of 3 projects which shall be set out in the form of a list of commissions in the format set out in Appendix B1, accompanied by a Certificate of Satisfactory Execution (Appendix B3) for each project list
• at least 4 weeks before a final copy is to be submitted
• PART 2 Applicant Details and Declaration
• Where in Section 2.5, an Applicant declares that it relies upon the resources of other entitles, each entity must complete the tables below and provide the evidence required in Section 1.6 of the Questionnaire. Where additional tables are required, click on the “+” symbol that appears at the end of table when you are entering details in the right hand column).
• 3.0 APPLICANT DECLARATION On behalf of Click or tap here to enter text., I

7. Key dates & process

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)
• 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 Service
• (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 1,000,000[12] € 1,250,000[13] Maximum level o
•  expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender
• Figure 1. Location of Arran Islands and Inis Meain off the
• Engineering Consultancy services to prepare a Preliminary Business Case, incorporating a Strategic Assessment, for Marine Infrastructure Improvement Options at Inis Meáin, Aran Islands, Co. Galway
• Only the Applicant or the Lead Member of an Applicant (where an Applicant is a Joint Venture, Consortium or Partnership) must complete this Section 2.1. Where the competition is for a design team to be led by a particular design team member, the lead design team member should set the drop-down menu to read “Lead Applicant”.
• Only the Applicant, or the Lead Member of an Applicant (where an Applicant is a Joint Venture, Consortium or Partnership), must complete this Section 2.2.

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: [3

Deadline phrases

• Cork on 13th September 2022
• land in Ringaskiddy, County Cork (NMCI) on 13th September 2022

Scale / volume phrases

•  180days after
•  180days after the end of the last day for submi
•  expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender
• 2 Consultant’s Representative
• 6. Consultants Tender Quality Submission
• 12 Consultant has no authority –
• The Total Performance Period is 12 months starting on the day the Parties made th
• ie/arbitration-rules/ on the date 10 days before the
• agreement and approval 1 week prior to the Consultant
• approval 1 week prior to the Consultant
• 3 Location and Sites
• The Consultant shall allow a period of at least 4 weeks for this process to be
• at least 4 weeks before a final copy is to be submitted
• Maximum 2 months from appointment
• Maximum 4 months from appointment
• Maximum 7 months from appointment (includes the 1 month
• Maximum 8 months from appointment
• Within 2 weeks of appointment, the Consultant shall su
• Figure 1. Location of Arran Islands and Inis Meain off the
• from Rosaveel along with passenger ferries from Doolin ( 6-8 months of the year)
• process can take between 6 and 9 months to be dealt with, subject to the volume
• statutory timeline and can take between 6 to 12 months to secure
• to UK can take a min of 30 days for results
• rent metering - full tidal range and cycles - possible 3 or 4 units deployed
• ples from the seabed – UK based laboratory – can take up to 3 months

TENDER DOCUMENTS [QC2-Part-2-v1.0-09-02-2022 (1).docx, QC2-Part-2-v1.0-09-02-2022 (1).docx, 200719_Céibh an Chóra_bathymetric_chart.pdf.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: 220622_Inishmaan_FerryTerminal_Deliverable.pdf, FTS9-v1.9-31-03-2023-1.pdf, Inis Meain Pier Dredging Options Report2021.pdf.