Watergate Urban Park, Parliament Street, Kilkenny for Kilkenny County Council

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Kilkenny County Council_1185 ran this procurement for “Watergate Urban Park, Parliament Street, Kilkenny for Kilkenny County Council” 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:

• Sector: Building Services & Maintenance
• Where the estimated value of the contract is above €5m (Services) and €15m (Works)
• • Evidence of ISO9001 & OHSAS 18001 Quality Systems Accreditation
• have calibration certificates which are within 3 months of the current date, and are suitable for the system parameters being commissioned
• the site, diversion and protection of existing services, construction of outdoor stage, canopy,
• soft landscape elements, as well as stormwater and other services connections all as set out
• and the Contractor shall confine his operations to the areas marked. The boundaries of the site
• however further unknown services may be present. Details of existing services including
• The services cables and pipes are underground and overground and their approximate location
• 1.3.10 The contractor must ensure the safety of these services during the works. The location of these
• and any other discovered services should be recorded on the as-built drawings.
• working outside the curtilage of the site boundaries in connecting the services or other network 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.

• external seating at the Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny and will include the stripping of the existing
• surfaces, demolitions of existing masonry boundary wall and concrete loading dock, regrading of
• the site, diversion and protection of existing services, construction of outdoor stage, canopy,
• [003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf] existing masonry boundary wall and concrete loading dock, regrading of

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.; 2 Evidence of insurance shall be required prior to commencement on site in accordance with the Form of Tender & Schedules and to be: Public Liability Insurance - Minimum €6,500,000 Employer’s Liability Insurance - Minimum €13,000,000 Contractor All Risks Insurance - See; * The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € CA Entry[19] *CA Note: state the minimum cover proportionate to the size of the project (default level is €1.5m)
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — Turnover Requirement Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Construction related activities[17] € 1,200,000.00 The applicant must project evidence o; The minimum average Construction Works turnover required over the last three years is €600,000 per Year (ex VAT); * The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € CA Entry[19] *CA Note: state the minimum cover proportionate to the size of the project (default level is €1.5m)
• Personnel — not specified for this tender
• Geographic / facility constraints — 2 Evidence of insurance shall be required prior to commencement on site in accordance with the Form of Tender & Schedules and to be: Public Liability Insurance - Minimum €6,500,000 Employer’s Liability Insurance - Minimum €13,000,000 Contractor All Risks Insurance - See 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.
• 2 Evidence of insurance shall be required prior to commencement on site in accordance with the Form of Tender & Schedules and to be: Public Liability Insurance - Minimum €6,500,000 Employer’s Liability Insurance - Minimum €13,000,000 Contractor All Risks Insurance - See
• Turnover Requirement Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Construction related activities[17] € 1,200,000.00 The applicant must project evidence o
• The minimum average Construction Works turnover required over the last three years is €600,000 per Year (ex VAT)
• • The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € CA Entry[19] *CA Note: state the minimum cover proportionate to the size of the project (default level is €1.5m)
• • The excess as stated here: Maximum permissible excess on Professional Indemnity Insurance in any one claim below which the will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2% of the Tenderer’s annual turnover, or €5,000. Cover provided * The excess as stat

5. Award criteria & scoring

• The excess as stated here: Maximum permissible excess on Profess 2% not stated not stated ed here: Maximum permissible excess on Professional Indemnity Insu 2% not stated not stated | e in any one claim below which the will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2 | 2% | not stated | 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) — 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) — not specified in extract.
• 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)
• [003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf] ................................................................... 34
• [003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf] existing masonry boundary wall and concrete loading dock, regrading of
• [003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf] completion is to be within 120 days of occupation.
• [003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf] Particulars & Preliminaries
• [003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf] the contract.

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 12 month. 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)
• produce a tax reference number where payments exceed €650. Records of tax reference
• Where payments exceed €2,500 in any 12 month period the Sub
• CA Note: Where an IPI Measure is in place and works are greater than €15m in value, the CA must select “Yes”
• nt and continues for as long as, under the Construction Regulations, the Client is required to have a project supervisor for the for the Project, unless the appointment is terminated earlier
• it is insured by insurances in the same terms as the insurances the Contractor is required to have under clause 10
• the same terms as the insurances the Contractor is required to have under clause 10
• molten zinc containing a minimum of 98% zinc, as per IS EN ISO 1461 : 2009 Hot Dip Galvanized

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: 003P+U WUP - Project Particulars & Preliminaries.pdf, Schedules and to be: Public Liability Insurance - Minimum €6,500,000 Employer’s Liabilit, schedules and other documents, check all.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule of Rates / Bill of Quantities and the, Schedule of Rates / Bill of Quantities fully priced in ink or digitally., Appendix C..