Tender for the Supply of Solid Carbide Profile Knives for Smartply Europe

SmartPly Europe Ltd

SmartPly Europe (subsidary of the Coillte Group) is situated at Belview Port, near Waterford city and has produced Oriented Strand Board (OSB) since 1996 for a range of structural applications including flooring, wall sheathing, roofing, hoarding, furniture and packaging. OSB is a strong, durable wood panel which is increasingly used throughout Europe in the Offsite construction sector. It is manufactured by compressing precisely engineered strands of wood with gluing resins at high temperature to create a strong and versatile panel. It is an innovative, environmentally sustainable timber based solution for structural and non structural building applications. A significant volume of the factory output is exported, comprising over 40 different products. SmartPly are a leading supplier of premium OSB products in Europe.
SmartPly Europe now wishes to invite suitable candidates to tender for the supply of solid carbide profile knives. These knives will be used on a Globe machine specifically designed to engineer four and two sided tongue and groove products. The oriented strand board products are manufactured from Irish pulp wood; these are soft timber such as; lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce along with small quantities of Douglas fir and Japanese larch.
The speed of the tongue and groove machine line ranges between 60 to 85ft/min depending on the products being processed at the time. The products supplied by the sucessful vendor will be subjected to a two month trial before the contract would be official awarded. Further information is provided in the tender document attached.
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=231212.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2011-05-27. The procurement was published on 2011-05-12.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2011-05-12 Contract notice
Contract notice (2011-05-12)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: machine tools for working wood
Quantity or scope: Please see tender documents attached to this notice.
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Machine tools for working wood 📦

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Other
Postal address: Belview, Co Waterford
Postal town: Slieverue
Contact
Internet address: http://www.smartply.com 🌏
E-mail: johnbrowne@smartply.com 📧
Phone: +353 51851233 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-05-12 📅
Submission deadline: 2011-05-27 📅
Publication date: 2011-05-17 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 94-153994
OJ-S issue: 94
Additional information
Smartply will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred in this process. Candidates are required to return their tender submissions by the deadline date stated. This notice is placed on foot of Article 37 of Directive 2004/18/EC, which invites voluntary publication where the Public Sector Directive does not apply. (ET Ref:231212).
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
SmartPly Europe (subsidary of the Coillte Group) is situated at Belview Port, near Waterford city and has produced Oriented Strand Board (OSB) since 1996 for a range of structural applications including flooring, wall sheathing, roofing, hoarding, furniture and packaging. OSB is a strong, durable wood panel which is increasingly used throughout Europe in the Offsite construction sector. It is manufactured by compressing precisely engineered strands of wood with gluing resins at high temperature to create a strong and versatile panel. It is an innovative, environmentally sustainable timber based solution for structural and non structural building applications. A significant volume of the factory output is exported, comprising over 40 different products. SmartPly are a leading supplier of premium OSB products in Europe.
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SmartPly Europe now wishes to invite suitable candidates to tender for the supply of solid carbide profile knives. These knives will be used on a Globe machine specifically designed to engineer four and two sided tongue and groove products. The oriented strand board products are manufactured from Irish pulp wood; these are soft timber such as; lodgepole pine and Sitka spruce along with small quantities of Douglas fir and Japanese larch.
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The speed of the tongue and groove machine line ranges between 60 to 85ft/min depending on the products being processed at the time. The products supplied by the sucessful vendor will be subjected to a two month trial before the contract would be official awarded. Further information is provided in the tender document attached.
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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=231212.
Variants will be accepted ✅
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Co Waterford.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: Please complete tender document attached to this notice.
Minimum level(s) of standards: Please complete tender document attached to this notice.
Contract execution
Deposits and guarantees required: N/A.
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: N/A.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
A grouping if successful must contract as a single enity having joint or several liability.

Procedure
Languages
Language: English 🗣️
Other languages: Irish.

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: SmartPly Europe Ltd
Other type of contracting authority: Other
Contact
Contact point: John Browne
Internet address: www.smartply.com 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA29784 🌏

Reference
Additional information
Smartply will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred in this process.
Candidates are required to return their tender submissions by the deadline date stated.
This notice is placed on foot of Article 37 of Directive 2004/18/EC, which invites voluntary publication where the Public Sector Directive does not apply.
(ET Ref:231212).
Source: OJS 2011/S 094-153994 (2011-05-12)
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