Design, Delivery and Installation of Temporary Modular Accommodation for 75 Defence Forces personnel at the Curragh Camp

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Department of Defence ran this procurement for “Design, Delivery and Installation of Temporary Modular Accommodation for 75 Defence Forces personnel at the Curragh Camp” 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:

• Where the estimated value of the contract is above €5m (Services) and €15m (Works)
• n that their safety management system is in accordance with ISO 45001:2018or equivalent
• rer shall be required to supply its Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference Number to facilitate online verification of their tax status by
• Provide a list of completed projects below for which select as appropriate: Works/Works and PSCS Services/Specialist Works/Specialist Works with Design Input were provided by the Applicant over the time period stated in the relevant Qualification Criterion stated above that are similar in nature and complexity to the Works required for this Competition.
• The evidence required to pass this criterion is details of the relevant technicians or technical bodies upon whom the Applicant can call on in order to carry out the work or whom the Applicant can use in regards to quality control. Applicants must also provide evidence of a safety management system.
• Evidence in support of the declarations in Appendix 1 and any requirements set out above must be provided when requested by the Contracting Authority.In place of documentary evidence, Applicants may provide third party certification that their safety management system is in accordance with ISO 45001:2018or equivalent. Certified membership of Safe-T-Cert may be deemed equivalent for the purposes of this criterion.
• confirm that for those Qualification Criteria, where the required response is marked “Declaration Required”, supporting documentation to substantiate the declaration made above will, where requested, be provided promptly and within the timeframe specified;
• declare that the Applicant is not guilty of misrepresentation in supplying or failing to supply the information requested in response to the Questionnaire. 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.

• • Health and Safety Policy and Organisation;
• • a copy of our current general health and safety policy; * a general Health and Safety policy document appropriate to a Health and Safety led Construction Management role;

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.; The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,500,000[16] The excess as st; ated here: Maximum permissible excess on Professional Indemnity Insurance in any one claim below which the Contractor will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2% of the Applicant’s annual turnover, or €5,000. Cover provided on an annual aggregate
• 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 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 Area of Business/Work: Yearly Turnover arising from the area of work specified: Modular Construction[14] € 5,000,000 CA SUPPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENTS: Th
• The professional insurance indemnity requirements are as follows: The level of cover as stated here: Minimum level of Professional Indemnity Insurance required for € 1,500,000[16] The excess as st
• ated here: Maximum permissible excess on Professional Indemnity Insurance in any one claim below which the Contractor will bear the cost is the greater amount of 2% of the Applicant’s annual turnover, or €5,000. Cover provided on an annual aggregate
• Minimum level of Public Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 6,500,000[18] Maximum level of excess for property only* for any one incident below which the Works Contractor will bear the cost: € 10,000 *No excess is permitted in respect
• Minimum level of Employer’s Liability Insurance required in respect of any one accident: € 13,000,000[19] Entitles issuing

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) — ESPD/declaration/statement-of-confirmation language was present.
• 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 FOLLOWING MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET, AND CLEARLY STATED IN APPENDIX B2: CERTIFICATE OF SATISFACTORY PROJECT EXECUTION, WITHIN THE PROJECTS SUBMITTED
• This project number must correspond to the project number given in Appendix B1
• This project number must correspond to the project number given in Appendix B1 List of Previous Works projects for which there is a Certifi
• [Appendix-B1-List-of-Previous-Works.docx]
• [Appendix-B1-List-of-Previous-Works.docx] 18 Applicant Entry

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 5 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)
• A minimum of (10) year’s experience post attaining chartership status of a recognised professional institution (e
• for submission of queries in relation to the Competition: 10 days before latest time for receipt of Tende
• Applicant’s current principal banker dated within the past 3 months stating the duration of the relationshi
• cation, we expect that insurance cover can be issued within 4 weeks of the receipt by us of the relevant ap
• ory application, we expect that a bond can be issued within 4 weeks of the receipt by us of the relevant ap
• I authorise you to provide the information requested overleaf in respect of [Applicant name] ’s term loan and on demand loan \ overdraft accounts (to the extent they exist) to [Contracting Authority] for the purposes of the above named contract’s prequalification submission.
• We confirm [ ] (the “Bank”) have been the Contractor’s principal banker for [ ] years.

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: Appendix-B1-List-of-Previous-Works.docx, Appendix-C-Bankers-Letter.docx, Appendix-D2-QW2-Letter-of-Undertaking-re.-Bond.docx.
• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: eTenders message portal (email not surfaced in extract).
• Key attachments to prioritise: 3.4.1-HS-Works-Contractor_v3.1-25-11-2025.docx, QW-Part-2-v1.1-18-11-2024.docx, [

[QW-Part-2-v1.1-18-11-2024.docx.