Clonmel District Headquarters GS - Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy Services

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Office of Public Works (OPW) ran this procurement for “Clonmel District Headquarters GS - Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy Services” 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: Clonmel District Headquarters GS - Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy Services
• (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 3,000,00012 € 3,500,00013 Maximum level of excess in any one claim
• Entitles issuing public liability insurance cover must have been granted an authorisation as an insurance undertaking by the Central Bank of Ireland to provide Non Service Provider will bear the cost: € 10,000 * No excess is permitted in respect of d
• Public Liability for death, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Service
• Invitation to Tender for Civil & Structural Engineering Consultancy Services.
• Services for the refurbishment of Clonmel Garda Station, Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
• You are hereby invited to submit a tender for this service. Please find attached the following
• Tender and Schedule document, containing the Scope of Services for this project
• Suppliers are requested to monitor emails from EU-SUPPLY (the eTenders website) as clarifications will be
• The Provision of Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy Services
• Standard Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical)
• Tender & Schedule for the Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical) 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.

• other Consultants. Assist the Design Team Leader in the preparation of a detailed programme for
• phase, inform the Employer of the cost and programme implications and obtain the Employer's

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.; (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 3,000,00012 € 3,500,00013 Maximum level of excess in any one claim; Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 650000014 14 If no value is entered it shall read as €2,600,000 (Two million and six hundred thousand Eu
• Certifications — Entitles issuing public liability insurance cover must have been granted an authorisation as an insurance undertaking by the Central Bank of Ireland to provide Non Service Provider will bear the cost: € 10,000 * No excess is permitted in respect of d
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — not specified for this tender
• Geographic / facility constraints — Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 650000014 14 If no value is entered it shall read as €2,600,000 (Two million and six hundred thousand Eu; Entitles issuing public liability insurance cover must have been granted an authorisation as an insurance undertaking by the Central Bank of Ireland to provide Non Service Provider will bear the cost: € 10,000 * No excess is permitted in respect of d 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.
• (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 3,000,00012 € 3,500,00013 Maximum level of excess in any one claim
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 650000014 14 If no value is entered it shall read as €2,600,000 (Two million and six hundred thousand Eu
• Entitles issuing public liability insurance cover must have been granted an authorisation as an insurance undertaking by the Central Bank of Ireland to provide Non Service Provider will bear the cost: € 10,000 * No excess is permitted in respect of d
• Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,00015 Entitles issuing employers liability ins
• Public Liability for death, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Service

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)
• been recorded in the NBDC database within 2km of the proposed works are listed in Appendix A of the AA
• [1. C&S_Clonmel_Invitation to Tender.pdf] Clonmel Garda Station, Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
• You are hereby invited to submit a tender for this service. Please find attached the following
• Suitability Assessment Questionnaire and Appendices
• should be delivered electronically via eTenders by 12 noon on that date. Please note that time is of the

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 10 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)
• (i) Level of cover and excess as stated below for the Principal Service Provider: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance complying with the conditions below: Cover on Each And Every claim basis Cover on an Annual Aggregate basis € 3,000,00012 € 3,500,00013 Maximum level of excess in any one claim
• Public Liability for death, personal injury [except EL, next type]; loss of, damage to, property; with indemnity to the Client as principal € 6,500,000 € 10,000 From start to completion of the Service
• sing date for the receipt of tenders is on 7th November 2023 and the completed tender package
• the applicant’s current principal banker dated within past 6 months, stating that, to
•  expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender
• [1. C&S_Clonmel_Invitation to Tender.pdf] Clonmel Garda Station, Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
• Services for the refurbishment of Clonmel Garda Station, Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

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: 1. C&S_Clonmel_Invitation to Tender.pdf, 3. FTS9-v1.9-31-03-2023-1 - Tender Schedule.pdf, except EL,

[3. FTS9-v1.9-31-03-2023-1 - Tender Schedule.pdf.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: 9. Appendix-B1-QC1-and-QC2.pdf, Appendix A of the AA, Schedule document, containing the Scope of Services for this project.