Limerick City and County Council - Site Investigation for Cliona Park Phase 4, Moyross, Limerick

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Limerick City and County Council_103432 ran this procurement for “Limerick City and County Council - Site Investigation for Cliona Park Phase 4, Moyross, Limerick” 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:

• Competition the successful Tenderer shall be required to supply its Tax
• verification of its tax status by the Contracting Authority. By supplying these
• prior knowledge of their organisation or service provision. Tenderers will only
• Scope of services, bill of quantities and Rates of Pay and Conditions of
• the Contracting Authority’s third party service providers, such as
• electronic submission to the eTenders platform, Tenderers are advised to
• system has sufficient capacity to execute the upload of all the documents
• electronic submission (including to the eTenders platform), Tenderers must
• construction operations subject to Relevant Contracts Tax (and therefore to
• Site testing locations drawing (Appendix A of Scope of Services)
• Slit trench locations drawing (Appendix B of Scope of Services) 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.

• and retention policy, a copy of which can be obtained from the Contracting

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 employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event 12; 4 Professional Indemnity Insurance is required Minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance annual aggregate €6,500,000 12
• 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 employer’s liability insurance €13,000,000 for any one event 12
• 4 Professional Indemnity Insurance is required Minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance annual aggregate €6,500,000 12
• 5 Maximum levels of excess for  insurance of Investigation €10,00010  public liability €6,50011  employer’s liability €6,50012  professional indemnity €70,00013 13
• 3g Public Liability Insurance and Employer’s Liability Insurance I declare that the above named Contractor has, or (if successful in this tender competition) will take out (prior to appointment), Public Liability Insurance (with a minimum level of cover of €6,500,000) and Employer’s Liability Insurance (w
• ith a minimum level of cover of €13,000,000) in accordance with the conditions stat

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 — eTenders portal and PDF electronic copies were referenced. Submission-related source lines:
• Value: not disclosed (eTenders placeholder)
• [Invitation to Tender.pdf] 18/07/2011
• You are invited to submit a Tender for the above Contract complying with the
• [Instructions to Tenderers.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers
• [Instructions to Tenderers.pdf] the
• [Instructions to Tenderers.pdf] with regard to

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 6 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)
• Remember any damage to gas pipes, even if the pipe does not appear
• within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s Representative must give the above
• Explosives must not be used within 30 m of any gas pipe (400 m for Transmission
• drilling or boring must not take place within 15 m of a gas pipe
• within 3 m of a Transmission pipeline
• (b) expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender
• When a payment is to be made, not later than 5 days after the date agreed between the

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: Invitation to Tender.pdf, Instructions to Tenderers.pdf, MF-1.25 Appointment of PSCS.pdf.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: contract notice for the Investigation to.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: ITT-W3 v 1.3, ITT-W3 V.1.3, ITT-W3 v1.3 01/08/2023.