Pontoon Building Refurbishment for New Centralised Locker Block, McKee Barracks

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Department of Defence ran this procurement for “PONTOON BUILDING REFURBISHMENT FOR NEW CENTRALISED LOCKER BLOCK, McKEE BARRACKS” 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:

• 6 17/07/2023 Category of Specialist Date for warranty Amount withheld Minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance Maximum excess for professional indemnity insurance greater Electrical Services Prior to the execution of any specialist work on site 100% 1,000,000 2% of Annual Turnover or €5,000.00 whichever is greater
• CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: The minimum requirement is that the tenderer has had at least 5 persons employed in a full time capacity delivering construction services on-site in each of the 3 years preceding the closing date for tender receipt
• Supply and fit new 19mm timber fascia and 25mm timber soffit
• Supply & fit new Iroka timber canopy support framework,
• the successful Tenderer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access
• status by the Employer. By supplying these numbers the successful Tenderer
• 2B submitted with its Tender that the parent company will supply a parent
• operations subject to Relevant Contracts Tax (and therefore to reverse-charge 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.

• refundable to all tenderers that submit bona fide tenders that are not

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: €6,500,0007 for any one event, but this limit may be;
  Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,0008 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 — 6 17/07/2023 Category of Specialist Date for warranty Amount withheld Minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance Maximum excess for professional indemnity insurance greater Electrical Services Prior to the execution of any specialist work on site 100% 1,000,000 2% of Annual Turnover or €5,000.00 whichever is greater 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: €6,500,0007 for any one event, but this limit may be
• 
  Minimum indemnity limit for Employers’ liability insurance: €13,000,0008 for any one event
• 
  Maximum excess for Public liability: €10,00010 in respect of property damage only
• If required, the minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance shall be €750,000.00 annual aggregate limit
• 6 17/07/2023 Category of Specialist Date for warranty Amount withheld Minimum indemnity limit for professional indemnity insurance Maximum excess for professional indemnity insurance greater Electrical Services Prior to the execution of any specialist work on site 100% 1,000,000 2% of Annual Turnover or €5,000.00 whichever is greater

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) — 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)
• the Pricing Document is more than €500.
• [ITT-Locker Block.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers
• [ITT-Locker Block.pdf] representation purportedly made on the
• [ITT-Locker Block.pdf] have not been filed, registered, or approved in any jurisdiction. Possession or
• which must be supplied by Tenderers. Tenders must be submitted in

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 3 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)
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 0.00 14
• Minimum amount for interim payments, except release of retention, € 0
• CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: The minimum requirement is that the tenderer has had at least 5 persons employed in a full time capacity delivering construction services on-site in each of the 3 years preceding the closing date for tender receipt
• (b) expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender
• Estimated 3 months after receipt of Tenders
• ory application, we expect that a bond can be issued within 4 weeks of the receipt by us of the relevant ap
• or any part of it and may terminate the process or any part of it at any time,

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: ITT-Locker Block.pdf, ITT-Locker Block.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers, ITT-W2 v 2.4 19/07/2023.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: ITT-W2 V2.4, ITT-Locker Block.pdf] representation purportedly made on the, ITT-Locker Block.pdf] have not been filed, registered, or approved in any jurisdict.