Environmental Consultancy 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 environmental consultancy services for the undertaking of environmental management, 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 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 1 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 5 000 000-10 000 000 EUR.
Initial Contract:
The framework agreement will be established on foot of a competition for an initial contract for environmental consultancy 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 Document issued with 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.

Deadline

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

Who?

• Dublin Port Company

What?

• Environmental impact assessment for construction › Environmental monitoring for construction

Procurement history

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

Contract notice (2015-07-24)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Environmental engineering consultancy services
Quantity or scope:

The services to be required under the framework will be on a draw down basis. The anticipated volume of work is not known at this stage and may increase over the life of the framework.

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Environmental engineering consultancy services 📦

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Utilities entity
Awarding authority name: Dublin Port Company
Postal address: Port Centre, Alexandra Road
Postal code: 1
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.dublinport.ie 🌏
E-mail: coflanagan@dublinport.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18876053 📞
Fax: +353 18551241 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2015-07-24 📅
Submission deadline: 2015-08-10 📅
Publication date: 2015-07-29 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2015/S 144-266952
OJ-S issue: 144
Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the e-Tenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments including clarifications and changes will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via 3 2) This is the sole call for competition for this service. 3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers. 4) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement 1 or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer(s) to join the framework agreement as appropriate. If, following the conclusion of the competitive process, it is not possible to award the initial contract to the designated successful tenderer or if having awarded the initial contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met its obligations, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the initial contract to the framework member with the next highest score on the basis of the original competition and as tendered by that party. This shall be without prejudice to the right of the contracting authority to cancel this competitive process and/or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion. 5) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time. 6) The Contracting Authority reserves the right to successively reduce the number of operators during this negotiated procedure. The Contracting Authority may gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated.

Additional information

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the e-Tenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments including clarifications and changes will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The contracting authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via 3

2) This is the sole call for competition for this service.

3) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.

4) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement 1 or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer(s) to join the framework agreement as appropriate.

If, following the conclusion of the competitive process, it is not possible to award the initial contract to the designated successful tenderer or if having awarded the initial contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met its obligations, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the initial contract to the framework member with the next highest score on the basis of the original competition and as tendered by that party. This shall be without prejudice to the right of the contracting authority to cancel this competitive process and/or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion.

5) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time.

6) The Contracting Authority reserves the right to successively reduce the number of operators during this negotiated procedure. The Contracting Authority may gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Service category: 12
Estimated value excluding VAT: 5 000 000 💰
10 000 000 💰
Short description:

The framework agreement will be established with 5 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 1 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 5 000 000-10 000 000 EUR.

Initial Contract:

The framework agreement will be established on foot of a competition for an initial contract for environmental consultancy 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 Document issued with 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.

Number of possible renewals: 2
Time frame for subsequent contracts: 12 months
Duration: 084 months
Name of EU-financed project or programme: Co-financed by the European Union transEuropean Transport Network (TEN-T).
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin 1.

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

As per the qualification questionnaire, available to download from: www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 98301.

Economic and financial standing:

As per the qualification questionnaire, available to download from: www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 98301.

Technical and professional ability:

As per the qualification questionnaire, available to download from: www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 98301.

Contract execution
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them: As outlined at tender stage.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

A grouping, if successful, may be required to contract as a single entity having joint and several liability but subject to the agreement of the contracting parties.

Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Number of operators of the framework agreement: 5
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 7
Languages
Language: English 🗣️
Irish 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Conal O'Flanagan
Address of the buyer profile: http://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/CompanyInformation/Index/411 🌏
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=91419&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Four Court, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Information about review deadlines:

Please refer to the relevant Irish Statutory Instruments (SI 131 of 2010) available at: www.irishstatutebook.ie

Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Your Legal Advisor
Source: OJS 2015/S 144-266952 (2015-07-24)

Contract award notice (2017-11-09)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Contracting Authority, the Dublin Port Company has established a multi-operator framework agreement for the provision of environmental consultancy services for the undertaking of environmental management, 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 7 year period.

Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Additional CPV: Environmental monitoring for construction 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin 🏙️

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Contracting authority
Contact
E-mail: dublinport@achilles.com 📧
Phone: +353 14020116 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-11-09 📅
Publication date: 2017-11-11 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 217-452225
Refers to notice: 2015/S 144-266952
OJ-S issue: 217

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Name of EU-financed project or programme: Co-financed by the European Union transEuropean TransportNetwork (TEN-T).

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2016-08-01 📅

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: ABR QSN Manager
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/411 🌏

Complementary information
Review body
Postal address: Inns Quay
Source: OJS 2017/S 217-452225 (2017-11-09)

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