Tellus Border Consultancy RFT 2011

Geological Survey of Ireland

The Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI), a division of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and situated at Beggar’s Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, issues this Request for Proposals to supply consultancy services to assist them with the delivery of the Tellus Border Project.
The Tellus Border project funded under Interreg IVA EU Structural funds, is a continuation of the award winning Tellus project run by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (GSNI). The project aims to extend the airborne multi-parameter geophysical and multi element soil and stream geochemical surveys to provide a baseline for environmental monitoring into counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan, Monaghan and Louth.
Additional tenders will be issued for the delivery of the geochemical sampling and analysis, airborne geophysical survey and for Public Relations support.
This tender requests, via four lots, four consultancy services for the GSI.
1. Assistant Project Manager
2. Project Geochemist
3. Assistant Project Geophysicist
4. GIS/Data manager
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=191302.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2011-02-21. The procurement was published on 2011-01-10.

Suppliers

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

Who?

• Geological Survey of Ireland

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2011-01-10	Contract notice
2011-07-05	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2011-01-10)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: geology services
Quantity or scope:

The GSI requires these services from March 2011 (or as soon as practical afterwards) to the end of Decemeber 2013.

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: Geology services 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for one or more lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Postal address: Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road
Postal code: 4
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.gsi.ie 🌏
Phone: +353 16782000 📞
Fax: +353 16681782 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-01-10 📅
Submission deadline: 2011-02-21 📅
Publication date: 2011-01-12 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 7-010327
OJ-S issue: 7
Additional information
(ET Ref:191302).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Tellus Border project funded under Interreg IVA EU Structural funds, is a continuation of the award winning Tellus project run by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (GSNI). The project aims to extend the airborne multi-parameter geophysical and multi element soil and stream geochemical surveys to provide a baseline for environmental monitoring into counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan, Monaghan and Louth.

Additional tenders will be issued for the delivery of the geochemical sampling and analysis, airborne geophysical survey and for Public Relations support.

This tender requests, via four lots, four consultancy services for the GSI.

1. Assistant Project Manager

2. Project Geochemist

3. Assistant Project Geophysicist

4. GIS/Data manager

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=191302.

Lot number: 1
Title of the lot: Assistant Project Manager
Short description:

The assistant project manager will report to the project manager, based at GSNI in Belfast. He/she will work closely with GSI’s Dublin-based project management team and communications lead. Principal tasks of the assistant project manager…

… are:— to assist the project manager in delivering the objectives of the project,— to ensure that GSI complies with the SEUPB and government guidelines regarding project management,— liaison with project partners,— management of geochemical survey and analysis contractors, in conjunction with the project geochemist,— management of the project team based in Dublin,— planning and delivering a programme of stakeholder engagement, in conjunction with the communications lead and the project’s public relations consultants.This will include:— meeting and updating different groups of stakeholders on the progress of the project,— making public and private presentations,— dealing with media,— responding to queries about the project,— event management,— reporting quarterly to SEUPB.Regular travel, including overnights away, will be involved in visiting contractors in the field, visiting stakeholders in the project area, and visiting GSNI in Belfast.

… are:

— to assist the project manager in delivering the objectives of the project,

— to ensure that GSI complies with the SEUPB and government guidelines regarding project management,

— liaison with project partners,

— management of geochemical survey and analysis contractors, in conjunction with the project geochemist,

— management of the project team based in Dublin,

— planning and delivering a programme of stakeholder engagement, in conjunction with the communications lead and the project’s public relations consultants.

This will include:

— meeting and updating different groups of stakeholders on the progress of the project,

— making public and private presentations,

— dealing with media,

— responding to queries about the project,

— event management,

— reporting quarterly to SEUPB.

Regular travel, including overnights away, will be involved in visiting contractors in the field, visiting stakeholders in the project area, and visiting GSNI in Belfast.

Quantity or scope: 1 service required
Lot number: 3
Title of the lot: Assistant Project Geophysicist
Short description:

The Assistant Project Geophysicist will assist the GSNI based Project Geophysicist with interpretation and QA/QC of the airborne geophysical data. The airborne geophysical survey will be similar to the Tellus project and capture, airborne magnetics, electromagnetics and radiometrics simultaneously from a fixed wing aircraft at a relatively low altitude. (This survey and data acquisition is the subject of a separate…

… tender.).The assistant project geophysicist will work initially with existing airborne geophysical data already captured by GSI and GSNI, in particular the pilot airborne survey flown over Cavan and Monaghan which will be incorporated into the Tellus Border survey. He/she will work closely with GSI staff in the geological interpretation of the datasets, on both shallow soil and subsoil thickness models and on delineating deeper bedrock structures.The geophysicist will spend periods in the field during the airborne survey planned for 2011 and can expect to make extended visits to GSNI in Belfast to work on the data during the full course of the project.

… tender.).

The assistant project geophysicist will work initially with existing airborne geophysical data already captured by GSI and GSNI, in particular the pilot airborne survey flown over Cavan and Monaghan which will be incorporated into the Tellus Border survey. He/she will work closely with GSI staff in the geological interpretation of the datasets, on both shallow soil and subsoil thickness models and on delineating deeper bedrock structures.

The geophysicist will spend periods in the field during the airborne survey planned for 2011 and can expect to make extended visits to GSNI in Belfast to work on the data during the full course of the project.

Lot number: 4
Title of the lot: GIS/Data Manager
Short description:

This GIS/Data Manager will work with all project staff and existing GSI and GSNI staff in the management of the geochemical and geophysical datasets. He/she will assist in the planning and implementation of the geophysical sampling campaign, outreach and PR events as well as the gridding and delivery of the final datasets, maps and reports. He/she will assist in the creation of a web mapping portal for public dissemination of the data.

Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Project Geochemist
Short description:

The inorganic geochemical survey will be undertaken using the BGS developed G Base sampling strategy for soils, stream sediments and stream waters (see http://www.bgs.ac.uk/gbase/ for further details). The aim of the surveys is to deliver a baseline survey for environmental monitoring. The sampling density chosen of 1 sample per 4 square kilometres will result in c. 3 300 samples each of soil, stream sediment and stream waters being…

… collected.The geochemical surveys of the Tellus project in northern Ireland were conducted using the G-Base format, and one of the goals of the Tellus Border project is to deliver comparable datasets so as to deliver merged cross border regional interpretations of soil quality.The role of the project geochemist will be to oversee the delivery of the sampling and analytical contracts (subject to a separate tender), the QA/QC of the geochemical data, and the interpretation and delivery of final maps and reports. The scope of the Tellus Border project is to incorporate the newly obtained data with existing Tellus geochemical data, so the final maps and reports will cover the 12 counties of the north of Ireland.Regular travel, including overnights away, will be required in visiting partners' offices, contractors in the field, and stakeholders in the project area and elsewhere. Field work will also be required, particularly for quality control of contractors undertaking soil and stream sampling, and sample preparation.It is planned that the sampling campaign will be completed by the end of 2012, and that duties in 2013 will be focused on the oversight of analysis, QA/QC and on regional interpretation and presentation of results.

… collected.

The geochemical surveys of the Tellus project in northern Ireland were conducted using the G-Base format, and one of the goals of the Tellus Border project is to deliver comparable datasets so as to deliver merged cross border regional interpretations of soil quality.

The role of the project geochemist will be to oversee the delivery of the sampling and analytical contracts (subject to a separate tender), the QA/QC of the geochemical data, and the interpretation and delivery of final maps and reports. The scope of the Tellus Border project is to incorporate the newly obtained data with existing Tellus geochemical data, so the final maps and reports will cover the 12 counties of the north of Ireland.

Regular travel, including overnights away, will be required in visiting partners' offices, contractors in the field, and stakeholders in the project area and elsewhere. Field work will also be required, particularly for quality control of contractors undertaking soil and stream sampling, and sample preparation.

It is planned that the sampling campaign will be completed by the end of 2012, and that duties in 2013 will be focused on the oversight of analysis, QA/QC and on regional interpretation and presentation of results.

Variants will be accepted ✅
Name of EU-financed project or programme:

The project has been funded by INTERREG IVA programme of the European Regional Development Funds under an environmental call.

Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Ireland, Dublin.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Contract execution
Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. The total cost of the consultancy service (exclusive of VAT) (50 %)
2. Quality of Proposal, in terms of ability to provide the service requested (50 %)
Languages
Language: English 🗣️
Other languages: Irish.

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Geological Survey of Ireland
Contact
Contact point: Mr Ray Scanlon
Internet address: www.gsi.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA01545 🌏
Name: Geological Survey of Ireland
URL for further information: www.gsi.ie 🌏
URL for documents: www.gsi.ie 🌏
URL for participation: www.gsi.ie 🌏

Reference
Dates
Start date: 2011-03-21 📅
End date: 2013-12-31 📅
Source: OJS 2011/S 007-010327 (2011-01-10)

Contract award notice (2011-07-05)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 570 000 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal town: Dublin 4

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-07-05 📅
Publication date: 2011-07-08 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 129-213755
Refers to notice: 2011/S 7-010327
OJ-S issue: 129
Additional information
(ET Ref:266052).

Object
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin, IRELAND.

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. Day rate (50)
2. Quality of proposal (50)

Award of contract

1️⃣
Date of contract conclusion: 2011-04-14 📅
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧

2️⃣
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪

3️⃣

4️⃣
Postal address: Carrighill, Mullacash North, Naas
Postal town: Kildare
Internet address: www.waterwise-env.ie 🌏
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 12
7
6
3

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: High Court Central Office Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Internet address: www.courts.ie 🌏
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Information about review deadlines:

Interested parties are referred to Regulation 7 of the European Communities (public authorities' contracts) (review procedures) Regulations 2010.

Source: OJS 2011/S 129-213755 (2011-07-05)

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