Kenmare Flood Relief Scheme - Ground Investigation Contract No. 1

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Kerry County Council_1204 ran this procurement for “Kenmare Flood Relief Scheme - Ground Investigation Contract No. 1” 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:

• Construction (and potentially operational maintenance works) could potentially disturb stands of
• Prevent the spread of invasive plant species during any channel maintenance works in the
• the Forest Service for testing. Under the EU Plant Health Directive, emergency legislation was
• Forest Service will offer advice on control measures in accordance with EU technical guidelines
• 30cm in height. Winter heliotrope has a rhizomatous root system which enables it to spread
• August 2022 and the commencement of the main construction works, the implementation of this
• where operation and maintenance may be required.

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.

• [Cover Letter.docx] Kenmare has a long history of flooding and has been identified as an area at significant risk from fluvial and tidal flooding under the National Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. Following the completion of the CFRAM Flood Risk Assessment Management Plan for River Basin UoM 21 (Dunmanus – Bantry – Kenmare) in 2018, Kerry County Council in partnership with the OPW are currently progressing a flood relief scheme for Kenmare.
• Additional background information is available on the project’s website: www.floodinfo.ie/frs/en/kenmare/home/
• The contract relates to the ground investigation which will be used to provide confirmation of ground conditions and geotechnical parameters for use in the ongoing project development, review of existing flood defences and the design of flood defences in the town. The investigation works will be focused in areas of proposed formal and existing/informal flood defences. Due to the nature of the flood relief scheme, the majority of works areas are adjacent to watercourses or Kenmare Bay.
• 3.7.2 of the Project Brief and presents the strategy that will be adopted during the pre-construction,

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

• Turnover requirement — not specified for this tender
• Insurance — not specified for this tender
• 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

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) — 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)
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] detailed Construction Environmental
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] .2 Scheme Area and Description
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] licence granted in that behalf by the Minister shall be
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] been introduced,
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] information was gathered:

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 18 months. 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)
• [Cover Letter.docx] Kenmare has a long history of flooding and has been identified as an area at significant risk from fluvial and tidal flooding under the National Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. Following the completion of the CFRAM Flood Risk Assessment Management Plan for River Basin UoM 21 (Dunmanus – Bantry – Kenmare) in 2018, Kerry County Council in partnership with the OPW are currently progressing a flood relief scheme for Kenmare.
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] .2 Scheme Area and Description
• are hybrids and rarely survive. The principal means of spread is through the deliberate or
• [W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf] hybrids and rarely survive. The principal means of spread is through the deliberate or
• on twigs that can spread onto leaves where the leaf bases and tips blacken this must be reported to
• the Forest Service for testing. Under the EU Plant Health Directive, emergency legislation was
• Many species of bamboo are found in East and Southeast Asia, and on islands in the Indian and

9. Risks, red flags & unusuals

• Numeric qualification gates were only partially visible, so eligibility certainty required full pack review.
• 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 — specialist operator with compliant procurement governance and evidencable experience.
• Consortium / sub-contracting — not clearly specified in extract.
• 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: Cover Letter.docx, W3680-BLP-R-ENV-001-02.pdf, J3028_Kenmare_FRS_GIAssessment_Report_10072023_v0.5.pdf.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule, Schedule, whereby “any person who, Schedule of the Regulations are presented in Table 2.1 below..