FCC/305/23 Turvey Avenue Footpath Construction Project

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Fingal County Council_371 ran this procurement for “FCC/305/23 Turvey Avenue Footpath Construction Project” 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:

• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• the successful Tenderer shall be required to supply
• 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
• the relevant Director of Services in Fingal County Council (the Sanctioning 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.

• The proposed construction programme is 3-6 months
• 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 level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident below which the Works Contractor and as PSCS will bear the cost: €6500000 Tenderer Entry: Check the appropriate bo; Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident below which the Works Contractor and as PSCS will bear the cost: €13000000 Tenderer Entry: Check the appropriate bo
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — Minimum Turnover Area of Work / Business: Overall Average Turnover to include other areas of business Minimum Average Turnover: Maximum Average Turnover: Civil Engineering N/A €1.0m on average over any 3 of the last 4 ye
• 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.
• Minimum Turnover Area of Work / Business: Overall Average Turnover to include other areas of business Minimum Average Turnover: Maximum Average Turnover: Civil Engineering N/A €1.0m on average over any 3 of the last 4 ye
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident below which the Works Contractor and as PSCS will bear the cost: €6500000 Tenderer Entry: Check the appropriate bo
• Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident below which the Works Contractor and as PSCS will bear the cost: €13000000 Tenderer Entry: Check the appropriate bo
•  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

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)
• [ITT-W2-v2.4-19-07-2023.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers
• [ITT-W2-v2.4-19-07-2023.pdf] er’s behalf in connection with them. Neither the Employer nor its
• [ITT-W2-v2.4-19-07-2023.pdf] or approved in any jurisdiction. Possession or
• [ITT-W2-v2.4-19-07-2023.pdf] It will be a condition of the award of the Contract that the successful
• The Employer has sent a contract notice for the Works to etenders and where

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 7 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)
• Within 3 months after receipt of the Contractor’s final statement, the Employer’s
• lace arrangements to complete the Works within 6 months after the termination, the Employer’s Representative shall issue this certificate as
• On 9 September 2020, the Government published new legislation2, as part of its preparations for the
• 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,
• These documents are being made available on the terms stated in these
• use of these documents contrary to any law is prohibited. Recipients must

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-W2-v2.4-19-07-2023.pdf, Schedule, part 2D) , Schedule and.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: contract notice for the Works to etenders and where.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: ITT-W2-v2.4-19-07-2023.pdf] Instruction to Tenderers, ITT-W2 v 2.4 19/07/2023, ITT-W2 V2.4.