Archaeology Services for Capital Works Projects in Dublin Port (including the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project)

Dublin Port Company

The Contracting Authority, the Dublin Port Company is engaging in a competitive tendering process for the establishment of a multi-operator framework agreement for the provision of archaeological services for the undertaking of archaeological assessment, monitoring and overseeing of all capital works projects (including the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project) in Dublin Port undertaken on behalf of the Dublin Port Company over a 7 year period.
The framework agreement will be established with 5 (five) operators, subject to the receipt of a sufficient number of valid tenders.
Only those Applicants capable of delivering all of the disciplines as outlined in the Project Brief (whether in-house or as a grouping/consortium) will be considered.
Therefore, applications relating to one or several of these disciplines and/or skills only are not acceptable and will be rejected.
Applicants will be required to nominate a Lead Party who will have a single point of contractual responsibility, with the remaining disciplines providing collateral warranties for the benefit of the Contracting Authority.
The maximum cumulative expenditure on call-off contracts under the framework agreement over its lifetime is envisaged to be in the region of 500 000-1 500 000 EUR.
INITIAL CONTRACT
The framework agreement will be established on foot of a competition for an initial contract for archaeological services relating to Phase 1 of the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project at Dublin Port, which would include the elements of services outlined in the Project Brief issued as part of this notice.
NOTE:
The Form of Contract is as yet undecided. Applicants should note that the Contracting Authority may utilise either FIDIC/NEC or Capital Works Contracts for the initial contract and all additional contracts on offer under the framework agreement.
Additional information about the framework agreement and initial contract is included in the Project brief attached to this Questionnaire.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2015-08-10. The procurement was published on 2015-07-24.

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Procurement history
Date Document
2015-07-24 Contract notice
2017-11-09 Contract award notice