EST WORKS - Connolly Hospital Generator Resilience Project (including PSCS)

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Health Service Executive (HSE) ran this procurement for “EST WORKS - Connolly Hospital Generator Resilience Project (including PSCS)” 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: Health Service Executive (HSE)
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• The Project 2 NEW STANDBY GENERATOR SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL AND BUILDERS WORK. AT CONNOLLY HOSPITAL
• Regarding: The Project NEW STANDBY GENERATOR SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL AND BUILDERS WORK. AT CONNOLLY HOSPITAL
• Minimum indemnity limit for Public liability insurance: €6,500,000[7] for any one event, but this limit may be on an annual aggregate basis for products liability, collapse, vibration, subsidence, removal and weakening of supports and sudden and accidental pollution.
• [FTS-5-v2.6-17-07-2023-1.docx] an annual aggregate basis for products liability, collapse, vibration, subsidence, removal and weakening of supports and sudden and accidental pollution.
• Persons under a contract of service or apprenticeship with the insured
• Persons under a contract of service or apprenticeship with the insured.
• Effecting or maintenance of insurance of or in connection with the provision of finance or advice on financial matters
• Utilities means conducting media and apparatus for water, sewage, electricity, gas, oil, telecommunications, data, steam, air, or other services, and associated apparatus and structures.
• The arbitration rules are the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) Arbitration Rules for use with Public Works and Construction Services Contracts (AR1) published on http://constructionprocurement.gov.ie/arbitration-rules/ on the date 10 days before the latest date for submission of Tenders for this contract (disregarding any amendments posted on that date).
• The Contractor’s agent[19] in the Republic of Ireland for service of legal process is: 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.

• Property of the insured or in the insured’s custody or control other than existing premises and their contents temporarily occupied for the purposes of the Works
• K Delay Events, Compensation Events, Programme Contingency, Delay Costs, Adjustments(Sub-clauses 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.6, 10.7)
• • The programme contingency is Site Working Days of delay caused by Compensation Events.

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.; Minimum indemnity limit for Public liability insurance: €6,500,000[7] for any one event, bu; Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,000[8] for any one event
• 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.
• Minimum indemnity limit for Public liability insurance: €6,500,000[7] for any one event, bu
• Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,000[8] for any one event
• Maximum excess for Public liability: €10,000~~[10]~~ in respect of p

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) — ESPD/declaration/statement-of-confirmation language was present.
• Mandatory site visit — not specified in extract.
• Submission portal and formatting — not specified in extract. Submission-related source lines:
• ect item description and the difference for an item in, or that should have been in, the Pricing Document is more than €500. No Yes
• Deliver a Generator project within 8 months, the main contractor must submit a minimum of two previous projects that demonstrate they have completed Generator projects within 8 months of them starting
• e that any variant tenders are permitted, a variant tender must comply with the minimum requirements set out in the Particulars If so stated in the Particulars, variant tenders may be submitted only by a Candidate who also submits a standard tender
• ough relevant projects submitted for each Candidate team member and their maximum points are set out in the table below 10](#_Toc144211191)
• ough relevant projects submitted for each Candidate team member and their maximum points are set out in the table below
• onsortium Member/Sub-Consultant Proposal & Declarations (MEMBER Consortium Member/Sub-Consultant Proposal & Declarations (MEMBER)*’ which shall b

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 8 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)
• ect item description and the difference for an item in, or that should have been in, the Pricing Document is more than €500. No Yes
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 0.00 [14]
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 0
• t is aware of the multiple participation by the relevant member and that it has been brought to the attention of all the consortium/joint venture
• Within 3 months after receipt of the Contractor’s final statement, the Employer’s
• lace arrangements to complete the Works within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s Representative shall issue this certificate as
• (b) 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.
• 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: FTS-5-v2.6-17-07-2023-1.docx, Where Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement 3 is selected from the drop down menu above it shall be the 3rd Edition as

[FTS-5-v2.6-17-07-2023-1.docx, ITT-W1-v2.3-07-01-2022.docx.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule and, Schedule, part 3D is* *“1, ITT within 2 weeks of the completion of the SAQ.