Appointment of Agent(s) to the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake compliance noise monitoring in the vicinity of EPA licensed sites.

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Environmental Protection Agency ran this procurement for “Appointment of Agent(s) to the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake compliance noise monitoring in the vicinity of EPA licensed sites.” 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:

• Services comprised of knowledge or skill (including but not limited to the provision of advice, design, specifications, IT consultancy and similar), professional indemnity insurance (including for breach of intellectual property rights, breach of data protection, libel and slander, contractual liability and non-performance) with the minimum liability cover of €1M in respect of any and all claims in agg
• Office of Communications and Corporate Services (OCCS)
• There is also an Office of the Director General (ODG) which is a small unit supporting the
• laboratory environments. Off-site operations include inspection and/or monitoring of a
• scheduled activities and operations have conditions attached to their licences which effect
• deliver the required services to the satisfaction of the Contracting Authority; the Contracting
• 8. Provision of additional technical/administrative back-office support as required.
• satisfactory delivery of the supplies/services required. The duties of the contract manager
• regarding service delivery in general and providing suggestions for improvement and
• jurisdiction of supply, compliance with equivalent legislation as applicable in the country of
• Tenderers must provide information which demonstrates operation of Health & Safety systems
• Quality Assurance Management System: 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.

• It is the policy of the Contracting Authority to promote participation by Small and Medium
• ability to manage and deliver the work programme to the
• programme, communications, and demonstration of ability to manage
• and deliver the programme to the required

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.; Services comprised of knowledge or skill (including but not limited to the provision of advice, design, specifications, IT consultancy and similar), professional indemnity insurance (including for breach of intellectual property rights, breach of data protection, libel and slander, contractual liability and non-performance) with the minimum liability cover of €1M in respect of any and all claims in agg; regate arising in any twelve period; and in relation to all Contracts: public/product liability insurance with the minimum liability cover of €6.5M in respect of any and all claims in agg
• 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.
• Services comprised of knowledge or skill (including but not limited to the provision of advice, design, specifications, IT consultancy and similar), professional indemnity insurance (including for breach of intellectual property rights, breach of data protection, libel and slander, contractual liability and non-performance) with the minimum liability cover of €1M in respect of any and all claims in agg
• regate arising in any twelve period; and in relation to all Contracts: public/product liability insurance with the minimum liability cover of €6.5M in respect of any and all claims in agg
• regate arising in any 12 month period; employer's liability insurance with the minimum liability cover of €13M in respect of any and all claims in agg
• Insurance Confirmation of the following insurances being in place Insurance Type Required Level Employer’s Liability €13 million Public Liability €6.5 million Professional Indemnity €2
• l in Place Level in Place Details of Any Excess Details of Any Excess Details of Any Excess Renewal Date Renewal Date Renewal Date Employers Liability Employers Liability €13,000,000 €13,000,000 € € € Public Liability Public Liability €6,500,000 €6,500,000 € € € Profe

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:
• [Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] - CONTRACT
• changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal
• www.etenders.gov.ie. Registration is free of charge and there is no charge for documents.
• [Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] urement Opportunities Portal
• [Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] analysing and reporting on the environment
• [Request for Tender FINAL.pdf] , landfill sites, industrial sites,

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)
• Services comprised of knowledge or skill (including but not limited to the provision of advice, design, specifications, IT consultancy and similar), professional indemnity insurance (including for breach of intellectual property rights, breach of data protection, libel and slander, contractual liability and non-performance) with the minimum liability cover of €1M in respect of any and all claims in agg
• h of data protection, libel and slander, contractual liability and non-performance) with the minimum liability cover of €1M in respect of any and all claims in aggregate arising in any twelve period; and
• defects in design, material and workmanship for a period of 12 months from the date of delivery
• nt of the invoice, the EPA will pay any such invoice within 30 days following the date of receipt of the in
• EPA will pay any such invoice within 30 days following the date of receipt of the in
• d for any reason, without penalty, by serving not less than 30 days’ written notice on the Supplier, in whi
• re parts of the contract may be performed that are in force 7 days prior to the deadline for receipt of Te

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: Request for Tender FINAL.pdf, scheduled activities and operations have conditions attached to their licences which eff, Schedule B.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: Scheduled, RFT, Appendix..