Limerick City water conservation project - leakage detection

Limerick City Council

Limerick City Council, who are responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water within the Limerick City functional area, are implementing a water conservation project.
A particular element of the project is leak detection and repair. To this end, Limerick City Council wish to employ a suitably qualified and experienced service provider to carry out leakage detection in order to achieve set leakage targets.
This leak detection contract will be undertaken within 10 district metered areas (L3, L4,L4A, L6, L7, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14), which comprise approximatley 123 km of water distribution network servicing 16,651 properties.
This leak detection contract will run in tandem with a separate leak repair contract, with an overall aim to reduce current unaccounted for water levels in these areas by approximately 4.6Ml/day over a 9 month period. These savings are then to be maintained or improved upon during a subsequent 3 month maintenance period.
The service provider will be responsible for the location/detection, marking, and reporting of leaks on the trunk and distribution mains (including services) and for the prioritisation and scheduling of repairs. Repairs will be carried out by a contractor appointed to a separate leak repair contract.
The leak detection contract may be extended to include further DMA's and/or trunk mains and the service period may be extended. The option to extend the service shall be at the sole discretion of Limerick City Council and shall be subject to the approval of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and procurement rules.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=238672.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2011-06-30. The procurement was published on 2011-05-20.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

• Hydrosave

Who?

• Limerick City Council

What?

• Water distribution › Drinking-water distribution

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2011-05-20	Contract notice
2011-06-17	Additional information
2012-04-23	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2011-05-20)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: water distribution and related services
Quantity or scope:

Limerick City Council, who are responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water within the Limerick City functional area, are implementing a Water Conservation Project.A particular element of the Project is leak detection and repair. To this end, Limerick City Council wish to employ a suitably qualified and experienced service provider to carry out leakage detection in order to achieve set leakage targets.This leak detection contract will be undertaken within 10 district metered areas (L3, L4,L4A, L6, L7, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14), which comprise approximatley 123km of water distribution network servicing 16 651 properties.This leak detection contract will run in tandem with a separate leak repair contract, with an overall aim to reduce current unaccounted for water levels in these areas by approximately 4.6Ml/day over a 9 month period. These savings are then to be maintained or improved upon during a subsequent 3 month maintenance period.The service provider will be responsible for the location/detection, marking, and reporting of leaks on the trunk and distribution mains (including services) and for the prioritisation and scheduling of repairs. repairs will be carried out by a contractor appointed to a separate leak repair contract.The leak detection contract may be extended to include further DMA's and/or trunk mains and the service period may be extended. The option to extend the service shall be at the sole descretion of Limerick City Council and shall be subject to the approval of the Department of the Environment, community and local government and procurement rules.

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Water distribution and related services 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Regional or local authority
Postal address: City Hall, Merchants Quay
Postal town: Limerick
Contact
Internet address: http://www.limerickcity.ie 🌏
E-mail: engineer@limerickcity.ie 📧
Phone: +353 61407180 📞
Fax: +353 61418345 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-05-20 📅
Submission deadline: 2011-06-30 📅
Publication date: 2011-05-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 99-162526
OJ-S issue: 99
Additional information

Competed documents should be returned in a sealed envelope, clearly marked "suitability questionnaire - Limerick City water conservation - leakage detection". Address for return of documents is listed in I.1 above. Limerick City Council is subject to the requirements of Freedom of Information Act 1997. If a candidate considers that any of the information supplied with his/her tender is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for it's sensitivety specified. In such cases the relevant material will, in response to a request be examined in light of exemptions provided for in the Act. (ET Ref:238672).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Limerick City Council, who are responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water within the Limerick City functional area, are implementing a water conservation project.

A particular element of the project is leak detection and repair. To this end, Limerick City Council wish to employ a suitably qualified and experienced service provider to carry out leakage detection in order to achieve set leakage targets.

This leak detection contract will be undertaken within 10 district metered areas (L3, L4,L4A, L6, L7, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14), which comprise approximatley 123 km of water distribution network servicing 16,651 properties.

This leak detection contract will run in tandem with a separate leak repair contract, with an overall aim to reduce current unaccounted for water levels in these areas by approximately 4.6Ml/day over a 9 month period. These savings are then to be maintained or improved upon during a subsequent 3 month maintenance period.

The service provider will be responsible for the location/detection, marking, and reporting of leaks on the trunk and distribution mains (including services) and for the prioritisation and scheduling of repairs. Repairs will be carried out by a contractor appointed to a separate leak repair contract.

The leak detection contract may be extended to include further DMA's and/or trunk mains and the service period may be extended. The option to extend the service shall be at the sole discretion of Limerick City Council and shall be subject to the approval of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and procurement rules.

Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=238672.

Quantity or scope:

Limerick City Council, who are responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water within the Limerick City functional area, are implementing a Water Conservation Project.

A particular element of the Project is leak detection and repair. To this end, Limerick City Council wish to employ a suitably qualified and experienced service provider to carry out leakage detection in order to achieve set leakage targets.

This leak detection contract will be undertaken within 10 district metered areas (L3, L4,L4A, L6, L7, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14), which comprise approximatley 123km of water distribution network servicing 16 651 properties.

The service provider will be responsible for the location/detection, marking, and reporting of leaks on the trunk and distribution mains (including services) and for the prioritisation and scheduling of repairs. repairs will be carried out by a contractor appointed to a separate leak repair contract.

The leak detection contract may be extended to include further DMA's and/or trunk mains and the service period may be extended. The option to extend the service shall be at the sole descretion of Limerick City Council and shall be subject to the approval of the Department of the Environment, community and local government and procurement rules.

Duration: 12 months
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Limerick City.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:

(1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent;

(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process;

(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession;

(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession;

(5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the state in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register;

(6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process;

(7) All candidates will have to demonstrate that they are licensed, or a member of the relevant organisation, in the state where they are established, when the law of that state prohibits the provision of the services, described in this notice, by a person who is not so licensed or who is not a member of the relevant organisation;

(8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established;

(9) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law or of the relevant state in which the economic operator is established.

Economic and financial standing:

(1) All candidates will be required to provide a reference from their bank;

(2) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;

(3) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice;

(4) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.

Technical and professional ability:

(1) A statement of the candidate's average annual number of staff and managerial staff over the previous 3 years;

(2) Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the contract;

(3) A statement of the candidate's technical facilities; measures for ensuring quality; and their study and research facilities;

(4) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract

(5) A statement of the tools, plant or technical equipment available to the service provider or contractor for carrying out the contract

(6) A list of works carried out over the past 5 years, detailing the value of the consideration received; when and where the work or works were carried out; and whether they were carried out according to the rules of the trade or profession and properly completed.

All candidates will be required to meet the minimum requirements of a suitability assessment questionnaire, demonstrating proven experience in leak detection and on a similar scale to these works.

Contract execution
Deposits and guarantees required:

Insurances and performance bond will be a requirement of the contract. Collateral warranties may also be required.

Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: As per the conditions of contract standard.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

Prior to the award of contract any group of contractors must form a single legal entity with joint and several liability.

Other particular conditions:

It is a condition of award of any contract that the service provider is able to produce promptly a current tax clearance certificate. In the case of a non-resident service provider, he/she should be in a position to produce a statement in lieu of a current tax clearance certificate, from the revenue commissioners, that he/she has satisfied them as to their suitability on tax grounds to be awarded the contract.

Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Minimum number of candidates: 5
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2011-07-29 📅
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Limerick City Council
Contact
Contact point: Transportation & Infrastructure Department
David Keane
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA02066 🌏
Name: RPS Consulting Engineers
Postal address: Innishmore, Ballincollig
Postal town: Cork
Contact point: Adrian Duggan
Phone: +353 214665900 📞
E-mail: adrian.duggan@rpsgroup.com 📧
Fax: +353 214873742 📠

Reference
Additional information

Limerick City Council is subject to the requirements of Freedom of Information Act 1997. If a candidate considers that any of the information supplied with his/her tender is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for it's sensitivety specified. In such cases the relevant material will, in response to a request be examined in light of exemptions provided for in the Act.

(ET Ref:238672).

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Body to be nominated by Director of Service, Transportation & Infrastructure
Postal address: Limerick City Council, City Hall, Merchants Quay
Postal town: Limerick City
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: engineer@limerickcity.ie 📧
Phone: +353 61407180 📞
Name: Engineers Ireland
Internet address: www.engineerireland.ie 🌏
Fax: +353 16685508 📠
Information about review deadlines: Within 14 days notification that the applicant has not pre-qualified.
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Postal address: 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge
Postal town: Dublin
E-mail: info@engineersireland.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1665130 📞
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Limerick City Council
Postal address: Water Services Department, City Hall
Fax: +353 61418345 📠
Source: OJS 2011/S 099-162526 (2011-05-20)

Additional information (2011-06-17)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-06-17 📅
Publication date: 2011-06-22 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 118-193736
Refers to notice: 2011/S 99-162526
OJ-S issue: 118
Source: OJS 2011/S 118-193736 (2011-06-17)

Contract award notice (2012-04-23)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 457 779 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal town: Limerick City

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-04-23 📅
Publication date: 2012-04-26 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 81-132319
OJ-S issue: 81
Additional information
(ET Ref:416675).

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2012-02-06 📅
Name: Hydrosave
Postal address: Swallow Court, Venture Park
Postal town: Kettering
Postal code: NN15 6XX
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Internet address: www.hydrosave.co.uk 🌏
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 6

Contracting authority
Contact
E-mail: info@engineersireland.ie 📧

Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines: Within 14 days notification that the Applicant has not pre-qualified.
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Engineers Ireland
Source: OJS 2012/S 081-132319 (2012-04-23)

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