23/052 - Provision of Electricity Supply to Gas Networks Ireland (ROI)

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Gas Networks Ireland ran this procurement for “23/052 - Provision of Electricity Supply to Gas Networks Ireland (ROI)” 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: 23/052 - Provision of Electricity Supply to Gas Networks Ireland (ROI)
• The Minimum Requirement is that the Applicant must confirm that it can supply a minimum of 100% renewable electricity
• d is certified to both the Environmental Management system, ISO14001 and the Energy Management System, ISO50001
• d is certified to both the Environmental Management system, ISO14001 and the Energy Management System, ISO
• Neither the Contracting Entity nor any subsidiary or holding company of the Contracting Entity or a subsidiary of any such holding company, nor its advisers, consultants, contractors, servants and/or agents shall have any liability or responsibility in relation to any system issues with the e-tenders portal, either due to network congestion or poor network speeds, or otherwise.
• Where such personal data is provided, the relevant controller is the Contracting Entity. If you have any questions about our use of your personal data, please , please use the eTenders messaging system to raise these with the Contracting Entity.
• third party service providers of the Contracting Entity, such as advisors and contractors; and
• (c) the Tenderer may be requested by the Contracting Entity to provide further information to support its Tender;
• to require, all, some only or none of the Tenderers to facilitate a site visit and / or system audit to provide further clarification in support of their respective tenders.
• Unless otherwise stated, all sums given in tenders must be in euro, to two decimal places. Tenderers must not insert additional items in the Form of Tender or other pricing document, or make any alterations to the Form of Tender or other pricing document. Amounts must be included wherever required in the Form of Tender or other pricing document. Blank spaces, the terms “nil” or “included”, or dashes or the like must not be used. Each amount must properly cover the full inclusive value of the works, services or supplies to which the amount relates. Tenderers must not use abnormally high or low rates or prices or percentage fees. This prohibition includes using strategies that might allow the Tenderer to benefit disproportionately in relation to any valuation of extra works, services or supplies or interim payments for works, services or supplies provided.
• [23-052_ITT_Electricity ROI for GNI.docx] interim payments for works, services or supplies provided.
• If, in the Contracting Entity’s opinion, the overall tendered amount is abnormally low or any tendered percentage (where relevant) or amounts (including any rates tendered for valuation of extra works, services or supplies) are abnormally low or abnormally high, the Contracting Entity will require the Tenderer to explain, including providing further written details of the constituent elements of the overall tendered amount or the tendered percentage or rates or any other information which the Contracting Entity considers relevant. This may include (without limitation) the information listed in Regulation 93(2) of the European Union (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings) Regulations 2016. Any failure to provide such information, where requested, may exclude the Tender from further consideration. If, having considered the information provided, the Contracting Entity is of the view that either the overall tendered amount is abnormally low or any tendered percentage, amounts or rates are abnormally low or abnormally high and the evidence supplied by the Tenderer does not satisfactorily account for this, the Contracting Entity may reject the Tender. The Contracting Entity will reject the Tender if it has established that the Tender is abnormally low because it does not comply with applicable legal obligations (including those referred to in Regulation 35(4) of the European Union (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings) Regulations 2016 (environmental, 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.

• Nothing contained in this document is, or shall be relied upon as, a representation of fact or promise as to the future. Any summaries or descriptions of documents or contractual arrangements contained in any part of this document cannot be and are not intended to be comprehensive, nor any substitute for the underlying documentation (whether existing or to be concluded in the future), and are in all respects qualified in their entirety by reference to them.
• If you are unsuccessful as part of the Tender process, such personal data will be retained until three years after the conclusion of the Tender process. If you are successful, and a contract is awarded to you at the end of the Tender process, such personal data will be retained in accordance with “PD/97”, the Contracting Entity’s data management policy.
• [23-052_ITT_Electricity ROI for GNI.docx] be considered by the Contracting Entity nor shall it be included in the evaluation/ assessment process, i.e. where a maximum of 10 pages are specified for a particular response, the Contracting Entity shall only consider the information presented in the first 10 pages of that response section and additional pages shall not be read or assessed. Similarly, where three examples of projects are requested only the first three projects listed/provided shall be considered as part of the assessment. A minimum font size of 10 point Arial or equivalent shall be used in submission text. References to an A4 page are to one side of an A4 page (i.e. a double-sided page counts as 2 A4 Pages). For readability purposes, spreadsheets, drawings and diagrams only, (e.g. programmes, flow-charts), may be presented on A3 pages. Each A3 page shall count as 2 A4 pages, however the previous restriction on font size shall not apply to A3 pages.

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 Insurance with a limit of indemnity of €13m per claim and unlimited in the period; •Employers Liability Insurance with a limit or indemnity of €13m per claim and unlimited in the period •Products Liability with a limit of indemnity of not less than €13m per annum per claim and in the aggregat
• 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 Insurance with a limit of indemnity of €13m per claim and unlimited in the period
• •Employers Liability Insurance with a limit or indemnity of €13m per claim and unlimited in the period •Products Liability with a limit of indemnity of not less than €13m per annum per claim and in the aggregat
• e •Professional Indemnity insurance with a limit of indemnity of not less than €2m per annum

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)
• APPENDIX 10 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 43
• The Minimum Requirements are set out at Appendix 10 (Minimum Requirements)
• Any Tenderer that submits a Tender that does not meet the Minimum Requirements will not qualify to have its Tender evaluated
• enderer that fails to submit the documentation outlined below does not meet the Minimum Requirements for this section and will not qualify to have its Tender evaluated
• and Appendix 10 (Minimum Requirements) Minimum Requirements

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 2 years. 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)
• ct must undertake to obtain a tax reference number for all sub-contractors employed on the contract to whom payments of €650 or more are made in a year and to obtain a Tax Clearance Certificate for all su
• b-contractors employed on the contract to whom payments of €2,600 or more are made in a year
• ed the Contract must undertake to obtain a tax reference number for all sub-contractors employed on the contract to whom payments of €650 or more
• according to the relevant section, the relevant appendix number and a descriptive name
• f Contract The Contract will be established for a term of 36 months
• Unless the context otherwise requires, capitalised terms have the meaning given in the Contract. In addition, capitalised terms have the following meanings:
• The Contracting Entity is not bound by any anomalies, errors or omissions in this ITT. None of the information shall constitute a contract or part of a contract between the Contracting Entity and any Tenderer. The Contracting Entity reserves the right not to follow up this ITT in any way and/or to change the Tender procedure and/or terminate discussions or the Tender procedure at any time. Neither the Contracting Entity nor its officers, employees, or advisers have any responsibility for Tenderers’ costs or losses in connection with this competition. The Contracting Entity shall not be obliged to enter into a contract with any Tenderer.

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: 23-052_ITT_Electricity ROI for GNI.docx, APPENDIX 10 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 43, Appendix 10 (Minimum Requirements).
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: APPENDIX 10 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS, ITT , Appendix 10 (Minimum Requirements) Minimum Requirements .