Tender for the Supply of Food Products — Retail Size

FoodCloud Hubs

The Contracting Authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a number of framework agreements for the provision of the supply of Food Products, Retail size. This supplies requirement is split into 5 (five) lots, based on product type. Each lot will be a separate competition and result in award of a Single Party Framework agreement.
The 5 lots are as follows:
Lot 1 — Pasta and Rice
Lot 2 — Soups, Sauces and Cooking Sauce
Lot 3 — Beverages
Lot 4 — Canned and Jar Foods
Lot 5 — Breakfast Cereals

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2017-09-04. The procurement was published on 2017-07-28.

Suppliers

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

• Bwg Foods
• The Barry Group

Who?

• FoodCloud Hubs

What?

• Canned goods and field rations › Canned goods
• Cereal products › Prepared breakfast cereals › Cornflakes
• Cereal products › Rolled oats
• Coated, canned or tinned fish › Canned tuna
• Coated, canned or tinned fish › Sardines
• Coffee, tea and related products › Coffee
• Coffee, tea and related products › Tea
• Cooking oil › Frying oil
• Farinaceous products › Uncooked pasta
• Fresh or frozen vegetables › Beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables › Processed beans
• Fresh or frozen vegetables › Beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables › Processed peas
• Fresh or frozen vegetables › Beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables › Processed tomatoes
• Fresh or frozen vegetables › Processed pulses
• Jams and marmalades; fruit jellies; fruit or nut purée and pastes › Jams › Strawberry jam
• Miscellaneous food products and dried goods › Dry goods
• Preparations of tea or maté › Teabags
• Preserved and/or canned vegetables › Beans in tomato sauce › Baked beans
• Preserved and/or canned vegetables › Canned vegetables › Canned peas
• Preserved and/or canned vegetables › Canned vegetables › Canned whole beans
• Preserved and/or canned vegetables › Preserved tomatoes › Tomato sauce
• Preserved and/or canned vegetables › Sweet corn
• Processed fruit and nuts › Processed fruit
• Processed rice › Long-grain rice
• Soups › Soup mixes
• Soups and broths › Vegetable soups
• Vegetable oils › Olive oil
• Vinegar; sauces; mixed condiments; mustard flour and meal; prepared mustard › Sauces, mixed condiments and mixed seasonings

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2017-07-28	Contract notice
2017-11-07	Contract award notice
2021-07-01	Contract award notice
2021-09-13	Additional information
2021-09-16	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2017-07-28)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Miscellaneous food products
Reference number: 2017/01
Short description:

The Contracting Authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a number of framework agreements for the provision of the supply of Food Products, Retail size. This supplies requirement is split into 5 (five) lots, based on product type. Each lot will be a separate competition and result in award of a Single Party Framework agreement. The 5 lots are as follows: Lot 1 — Pasta and Rice Lot 2 — Soups, Sauces and Cooking Sauce Lot 3 — Beverages Lot 4 — Canned and Jar Foods Lot 5 — Breakfast Cereals

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Miscellaneous food products 📦
Additional CPV: Canned or tinned fish and other prepared or preserved fish 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

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
Awarding authority name: FoodCloud Hubs
Postal address: 8 Broomhill Business Park, Broomhill Rd, Tymon North
Postal code: 24
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.food.cloud 🌏
E-mail: suzanne@foodcloud.ie 📧
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=116473&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-07-28 📅
Submission deadline: 2017-09-04 📅
Publication date: 2017-08-01 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 145-298936
OJ-S issue: 145
Additional information

FEAD was established to support people to take their first steps out of poverty and social exclusion. The aim of FEAD is to break the circle of poverty and deprivation. FEAD Ireland is funded by European funding and Irish exchequer funding for the period 2014-2020.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The 5 lots are as follows:

Lot 1 — Pasta and Rice

Lot 2 — Soups, Sauces and Cooking Sauce

Lot 3 — Beverages

Lot 4 — Canned and Jar Foods

Lot 5 — Breakfast Cereals

Estimated total value: 13 000 000 EUR 💰
Maximum number of lots per tenderer: 3
Title of the lot: Pasta and Rice
Lot number: 1
Short description:

1.1 Rice (uncooked)

1.2 Rice (precooked)

1.3 Pasta (penne)

1.4 Noodle Pot

Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 812 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 48 months
Name of EU-financed project or programme: FEAD Programme.
Additional information:

Title of the lot: Soups, Sauces and Cooking Oils
Lot number: 2
Short description:

2.1 Pasta Sauce (tomato based)

2.2 Instant Soup (3 pack / vegetable)

2.3 Instant/ Dried Soup (1 family serving / vegetable)

2.4 Canned Soup (Vegetable)

2.5 Cooking Oil (Sunflower or Vegetable)

2.6 Olive Oil (Extra virgin)

2.7 Pasta Sauce (Carbonara)

2.8 Custard (Ready pour)

2.9 Custard (Ready pour — light — low fat)

2.10 Curry Sauce (Powder — drum)

Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 888 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Beverages
Lot number: 3
Short description:

3.1 Tea Bags

3.2 Instant Coffee Powder — 200 g

3.3 Instant Coffee Powder — 100 g

3.4 Instant Coffee Granules — 200 g

3.5 Instant Coffee Granules — 100 g

3.6 Granulated Sugar — white — 1 kg

Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 244 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Canned and Jar Foods
Lot number: 4
Short description:

4.1 Canned Beans

4.2 Canned Peas

4.3 Canned Kidney Beans

4.4 Canned Sweetcorn

4.5 Canned Tomatoes

4.6 Canned Flaked Tuna (in brine, pole and line caught)

4.7 Canned Salmon (in oil)

4.8 Canned Sardines (in brine)

4.9 Canned Creamed Rice- light (low fat)

4.10 Canned Creamed Rice

4.11 Canned Fruit Cocktail

4.12 Strawberry Jam

4.13 Strawberry Jam (no added sugar)

4.14 Marmalade

4.15 Marmalade (no added sugar)

4.16 Canned Beef and Pork Kidney Pie (in beef gravy topped with puff pastry)

Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 880 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Breakfast Cereals
Lot number: 5
Short description:

5.1 Wheat Biscuits

5.2 Cornflakes

5.3 Crisped Rice

5.4 Porridge Oats

5.5 Porridge Pot (Instant)

Estimated value excluding VAT: 3 176 000 EUR 💰
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: All of Ireland.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:

Please refer to tender document available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using system ID 121890.

Procedure
Number of participants to be contemplated: 1
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 12 months
Tender opening date: 2017-09-04 📅
Tender opening time: 14:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: CHY 20558
Other type of contracting authority: charitable organisation in receipt of EU Funds
Contact
Contact point: Suzanne Browne
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/125926 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=116473&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

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.

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

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

4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.

5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.

6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement, the contracting authority reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement, deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the framework.

7) 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.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Source: OJS 2017/S 145-298936 (2017-07-28)

Contract award notice (2017-11-07)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Contracting Authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a number of framework agreements for the provision of the supply of Food Products, Retail size. This supplies requirement is split into 5 (five) lots, based on product type. Each lot will be a separate competition and result in award of a Single Party Framework agreement. The 5 lots are as follows: Lot 1 — Pasta and Rice; Lot 2 — Soups, Sauces and Cooking Sauce; Lot 3 — Beverages; Lot 4 — Canned and Jar Foods; Lot 5 — Breakfast Cereals.

Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: 8, Broomhill Business Park, Broomhill Rd, Tymon North

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2017-11-07 📅
Publication date: 2017-11-09 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2017/S 215-446605
Refers to notice: 2017/S 145-298936
OJ-S issue: 215

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Lot 1 — Pasta and Rice;

Lot 2 — Soups, Sauces and Cooking Sauce;

Lot 3 — Beverages;

Lot 4 — Canned and Jar Foods;

Lot 5 — Breakfast Cereals.

1.1 Rice (uncooked);

1.2 Rice (precooked);

1.3 Pasta (penne);

1.4 Noodle Pot.

2.1 Pasta Sauce (tomato based);

2.2 Instant Soup (3 pack/ vegetable);

2.3 Instant/ Dried Soup (1 family serving/ vegetable);

2.4 Canned Soup (Vegetable);

2.5 Cooking Oil (Sunflower or Vegetable);

2.6 Olive Oil (Extra virgin);

2.7 Pasta Sauce (Carbonara);

2.8 Custard (Ready pour);

2.9 Custard (Ready pour — light — low fat);

2.10 Curry Sauce (Powder — drum).

3.2 Instant Coffee Powder — 200 g;

3.3 Instant Coffee Powder — 100 g;

3.4 Instant Coffee Granules — 200 g;

3.5 Instant Coffee Granules — 100 g;

3.6 Granulated Sugar — white — 1 kg.

4.1 Canned Beans;

4.2 Canned Peas;

4.3 Canned Kidney Beans;

4.4 Canned Sweetcorn;

4.5 Canned Tomatoes;

4.6 Canned Flaked Tuna (in brine, pole and line caught);

4.7 Canned Salmon (in oil);

4.8 Canned Sardines (in brine);

4.9 Canned Creamed Rice- light (low fat);

4.10 Canned Creamed Rice;

4.11 Canned Fruit Cocktail;

4.12 Strawberry Jam;

4.13 Strawberry Jam (no added sugar);

4.14 Marmalade;

4.15 Marmalade (no added sugar);

4.16 Canned Beef and Pork Kidney Pie (in beef gravy topped with puff pastry).

5.1 Wheat Biscuits;

5.2 Cornflakes;

5.3 Crisped Rice;

5.4 Porridge Oats;

5.5 Porridge Pot (Instant).

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2017-10-31 📅

Contracting authority
Identity
Other type of contracting authority: Charitable Organisation in receipt of EU Funds
Source: OJS 2017/S 215-446605 (2017-11-07)

Contract award notice (2021-07-01)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The contracting authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a number of framework agreements for the provision of the supply of food products, retail size. This supplies requirement is split into 5 (five) lots, based on product type. Each lot will be a separate competition and result in award of a Single Party Framework agreement. The five lots are as follows: Lot 1 — Pasta and Rice; Lot 2 — Soups, Sauces and Cooking Sauce; Lot 3 — Beverages; Lot 4 — Canned and Jar Foods; Lot 5 — Breakfast Cereals.

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal code: Dublin 24

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-07-01 📅
Publication date: 2021-07-06 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 128-339389
Refers to notice: 2017/S 215-446605
OJ-S issue: 128

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The five lots are as follows:

Title of the lot: Pasta & Rice
Name of EU-financed project or programme: FEAD Programme
Short description:

2.2 Instant Soup (3 pack/vegetable)

2.3 Instant/ Dried Soup (1 family serving/vegetable)

2.10 Curry Sauce (Powder – drum)

3.6 Granulated Sugar - white — 1 kg

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2017-10-25 📅
Name: The Barry Group
National registration number: 9L05139W
Postal address: Upper Quarterton
Postal town: Mallow
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Date of contract conclusion: 2017-11-07 📅
Name: BWG Foods
National registration number: 20469
Postal address: Greenhills Road, Walkinstown
Postal town: Dublin
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
1

Complementary information
Review body
Postal code: D7
Source: OJS 2021/S 128-339389 (2021-07-01)

Additional information (2021-09-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The Contracting Authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of a number of framework agreements for the provision of the supply of Food Products, Retail size. This supplies requirement is split into 5 (five) lots, based on product type. Each lot will be a separate competition and result in award of a Single Party Framework agreement. The five lots are as follows: Lot 1 - Pasta & Rice Lot 2 - Soups, Sauces & Cooking Sauce Lot 3 - Beverages Lot 4 - Canned & Jar Foods Lot 5 - Breakfast Cereals

Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Uncooked pasta 📦

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-09-13 📅
Publication date: 2021-09-17 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 181-469768
OJ-S issue: 181

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Lot 1 - Pasta & Rice

Lot 2 - Soups, Sauces & Cooking Sauce

Lot 3 - Beverages

Lot 4 - Canned & Jar Foods

Lot 5 - Breakfast Cereals

Source: OJS 2021/S 181-469768 (2021-09-13)

Contract award notice (2021-09-16)
Contracting authority
Contact
E-mail: emily@foodcloud.ie 📧
Phone: +353 014625370 📞

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-09-16 📅
Publication date: 2021-09-21 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 183-475841
OJ-S issue: 183

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title of the lot: Soups, Sauces & Cooking Oils
Short description:

2.2 Instant Soup (3 pack/ vegetable)

2.3 Instant/ Dried Soup (1 family serving/ vegetable)

2.9 Custard (Ready pour - light - low fat)

3.2 Instant Coffee Powder - 200g

3.3 Instant Coffee Powder - 100g

3.4 Instant Coffee Granules - 200g

3.5 Instant Coffee Granules - 100g

3.6 Granulated Sugar - white - 1kg

Title of the lot: Canned & Jar Foods
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: All of Ireland

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Account Management, personnel & escalation procedure
Quality criterion (weighting): 20%
Quality criterion (name): Tenderers methodology outlining their proposal to meet in full the requirements outlined and confirmation of continuity of supply
Quality criterion (weighting): 15%
Quality criterion (name): Quality of the Tenderers proposed protocol for product traceability, product recall and customer complaints
Quality criterion (weighting): 10%
Quality criterion (name): Tenderers’ proposal to add value without additional costs to the Contracting Authority
Quality criterion (weighting): 5%
Price (weighting): 50%

Contracting authority
Contact
Contact point: Emily Fitzsimons

Reference
Additional information

Additional information

7) 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

Source: OJS 2021/S 183-475841 (2021-09-16)

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