New Year's Festival Dublin

Fรกilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority

Fรกilte Ireland together with Dublin City Council are now seeking proposals from suitably qualified candidates with a view to awarding a contract for the development of creative direction for the New Year's Festival along with the management of programming, marketing and operational elements of the festival.
The festival should have a strong emphasis on the New Year's Midnight Moment celebration which will act as a focal point for Dublin's New Year Festival. The festival should be participative and iconic in nature and be expressed over a two day period.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2017-04-10. The procurement was published on 2017-03-16.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2017-03-16 Contract notice
2017-10-10 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2017-03-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Recreational, cultural and sporting services
Reference number: DB/2017/02
Short description:
Fรกilte Ireland together with Dublin City Council are now seeking proposals from suitably qualified candidates with a view to awarding a contract for the development of creative direction for the New Year's Festival along with the management of programming, marketing and operational elements of the festival. The festival should have a strong emphasis on the New Year's Midnight Moment celebration which will act as a focal point for Dublin's New Year Festival. The festival should be participative and iconic in nature and be expressed over a two day period.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Recreational, cultural and sporting services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Event services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Fรกilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority
Postal address: 88-95 Amiens Street
Postal code: 2
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.failteireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 18847888 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=110040&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-03-16 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2017-04-10 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2017-03-18 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 055-101906
OJ-S issue: 55
Additional information
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (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 third parties 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, participants or tenderers. 4) Establishment of this contract will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities. 5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the contract with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to contract with the next highest scoring tenderer on the basis of the same terms at any time during the tender validity period. 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. 6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, at any time. 7) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the application stage.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Fรกilte Ireland together with Dublin City Council are now seeking proposals from suitably qualified candidates with a view to awarding a contract for the development of creative direction for the New Year's Festival along with the management of programming, marketing and operational elements of the festival.
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The festival should have a strong emphasis on the New Year's Midnight Moment celebration which will act as a focal point for Dublin's New Year Festival. The festival should be participative and iconic in nature and be expressed over a two day period.
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Estimated total value: 2 500 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Estimated value excluding VAT: 2 500 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Duration: 60 months
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 stated in the tender notice and PQQ which is available for downloading from the Irish Government procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie
Economic and financial standing:
As stated in the tender notice and PQQ which is available for downloading from the Irish Government procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie
Minimum level(s) of standards:
As stated in the tender notice and PQQ which is available for downloading from the Irish Government procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie
Technical and professional ability:
As stated in the tender notice and PQQ which is available for downloading from the Irish Government procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:
As stated in the tender notice and PQQ which is available for downloading from the Irish Government procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie

Procedure
Minimum number of candidates: 5
Maximum number of candidates: 8
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2017-04-17 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender validity period: 12 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Procurement Unit
Internet address: www.failteireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1169 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=110040&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Additional information
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (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 third parties
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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, participants or tenderers.
4) Establishment of this contract will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the contract with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to contract with the next highest scoring tenderer on the basis of the same terms at any time during the tender validity period. 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.
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6) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process, at any time.
7) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the application stage.
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Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Chief Registrar, The Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Internet address: www.courts.ie ๐ŸŒ
Source: OJS 2017/S 055-101906 (2017-03-16)
Contract award notice (2017-10-10)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-10-10 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2017-10-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 196-403315
Refers to notice: 2017/S 055-101906
OJ-S issue: 196
Additional information
This tender failed to achieve a successful outcome. Subsequently, the tender requirements were issued directly to a number of non-interested parties in the market. Upon full evaluation of the responses, MCD Promotions were the successful tenderer.

Object
Scope of the procurement
This tender failed to achieve a successful outcome. Subsequently, the tender requirements were issued directly to a number of non-interested parties in the market. Upon full evaluation of the responses, MCD Promotions were the successful tenderer.

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Fitness for purpose of the proposed solution
Quality criterion (weighting): 35
Quality criterion (name): Project Management, Operations and Logistics
Quality criterion (weighting): 20
Quality criterion (name): Proposed Human Resources
Quality criterion (weighting): 15
Price weighting: 30
Source: OJS 2017/S 196-403315 (2017-10-10)