Madonna House (6no. Units), Station Road, Ballincollig, Cork

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Cork City Council ran this procurement for “Madonna House (6no. Units), Station Road, Ballincollig, Cork” 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
• Minimum indemnity limit for Public liability insurance: €6,500,000 for any one event, but this limit may be on an annual aggregate basis for products liability, collapse, vibration, subsidence, removal and weakening of supports and sudden and accidental pollution.
• Persons under a contract of service or apprenticeship with the insured
• Persons under a contract of service or apprenticeship with the insured.
• Effecting or maintenance of insurance of or in connection with the provision of finance or advice on financial matters
• Utilities means conducting media and apparatus for water, sewage, electricity, gas, oil, telecommunications, data, steam, air, or other services, and associated apparatus and structures.
• The arbitration rules are the Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF) Arbitration Rules for use with Public Works and Construction Services Contracts (AR1) published on http://constructionprocurement.gov.ie/arbitration-rules/ on the date 10 days before the latest date for submission of Tenders for this contract (disregarding any amendments posted on that date).
• The Contractor’s agent in the for service of legal process is:
• External Windows & doors - Supply and Installation Claddings
• Intruder alarm systems - wiring only Rebar
• Bitumen Macadam Air tightness system 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.

• Property of the insured or in the insured’s custody or control other than existing premises and
• Property of the insured or in the insured’s custody or control other than existing premises and their contents temporarily occupied for the purposes of the Works
• K Delay Events, Compensation Events, Programme Contingency, Delay Costs, Adjustments
• The programme contingency is 30 Site Working Days of delay caused by Compensation Events.

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.; Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Building and Civil Engineering Construction € € 750,000 Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,000,000 Maximum permissible excess on Profe; Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 6,500,000 Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the Works Contractor will bear the cost: € 10,000 Minimum level of Employer’s Liabili
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — Turnover Requirement CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: Minimum standard – As stated in the above table the minimum average turnover for the last 3 previous financial years is € 750K
• Personnel — Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Building and Civil Engineering Construction € € 750,000 Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,000,000 Maximum permissible excess on Profe
• 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.
• Turnover Requirement CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: Minimum standard – As stated in the above table the minimum average turnover for the last 3 previous financial years is € 750K
• The minimum average turnover must meet or exceed € 750K
• Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Building and Civil Engineering Construction € € 750,000 Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,000,000 Maximum permissible excess on Profe
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 6,500,000 Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the Works Contractor will bear the cost: € 10,000 Minimum level of Employer’s Liabili
• Minimum indemnity limit for Public liability insurance: €6,500,000 for any one event, but this limit may be

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)
• and the difference for an item in, or that should have been in, the Pricing Document is more than €500. No Yes
• 2. Number and type of Electronic Copies of Tender: Submitted Through eTenders
• We have examined and understand the Public Works Contract for Minor Building and Civil Engineering Works Designed by the Employer, the Works Requirements, the Pricing Document, all as amended by any supplemental information, for the above contract.
• We submit with this Tender the completed Pricing Document and Schedule which form part of this Tender.
• and any rates in the Pricing Document.

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 1 month. 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, €20,000
• The minimum average turnover will be determined by calculating the combined construction turnover of all members of a consortium for 2020, 2021 and 2022 and then dividing by 3
• 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
• e Tenderer’s current principal banker dated within the past 3 months
• cation, we expect that insurance cover can be issued within 4 weeks of the receipt by us of the relevant ap
• (b) expiry of at least 21 days written notice to terminate this Tender

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: FOT Madonna HouseRevA.docx, Where Civil Engineering Standard

[FOT Madonna HouseRevA.docx, ITT-Madonna HouseRevA.docx.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: Schedule and, Schedule, Schedule for Public Works Contract for Building Works Designed by the Employer.