Cork City and Mallow Network Contracts

Irish Water

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment & distribution of drinking water & the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City & Co.
— Lot 1: A number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive & are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town.
— Lot 2: As part of the implementation of a water conservation project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: Are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures; Have water quality issues; Have reached the end of their service life; Have insufficient hydraulic capacity & are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2018-05-17. The procurement was published on 2018-04-13.

Suppliers

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

• Ward and Burke Construction Ltd

Who?

• Irish Water

What?

• Ancillary works for pipelines and cables › Sewer construction work
• Ancillary works for water pipelines › Works related to water-distribution pipelines › Pumping station construction work
• Concrete products › Concrete pipes and fittings
• Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines › Construction work for water and sewage pipelines
• Demolition, site preparation and clearance work › Demolition work
• Excavating and earthmoving work › Trench-digging work
• Pipes › Sewer pipes
• Sewer mains › Sewage chambers

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2018-04-13	Contract notice
2018-05-08	Additional information
2018-05-22	Additional information
2021-03-29	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2018-04-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Sewer construction work
Reference number: 18/035
Short description:

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment & distribution of drinking water & the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City & Co. — Lot 1: A number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive & are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town. — Lot 2: As part of the implementation of a water conservation project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: Are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures; Have water quality issues; Have reached the end of their service life; Have insufficient hydraulic capacity & are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Works
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Sewer construction work 📦
Additional CPV: Concrete pipes and fittings 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

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: Irish Water
Postal address: P.O Box 900, Webworks, Eglinton Street
Postal code: Co.Cork
Postal town: Cork
Contact
Internet address: http://www.ervia.ie 🌏
E-mail: tenders@ervia.ie 📧
Phone: +353 214239065 📞
URL for documents: http://www.etenders.gov.ie 🌏
URL for participation: http://www.etenders.gov.ie 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-04-13 📅
Submission deadline: 2018-05-17 📅
Publication date: 2018-04-17 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 074-165447
OJ-S issue: 74
Additional information

You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict & no submissions will be possible after the date & time specified in the PQQ documents. Please note that all tenders are electronic, as such NO paper copies will be accepted or read. Please submit via the Etenders system not later than 12:00 hrs local time, Thursday 17.5.2018.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment & distribution of drinking water & the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City & Co.

— Lot 1: A number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive & are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town.

— Lot 2: As part of the implementation of a water conservation project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: Are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures; Have water quality issues; Have reached the end of their service life; Have insufficient hydraulic capacity & are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Title of the lot: Lot 1 — Mallow
Lot number: 1
Short description:

Irish Water proposes to upgrade sections of the sewerage network in Mallow, County Cork to facilitate the removal of a number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) to the River Blackwater.

Removal of 9 nº CSOs.

— Design, construction and commissioning of new combined sewers and associated access manholes, total length approximately 5,5 km (375 mm - 1 500 mm diameter), installed using open cut techniques,

— trenchless construction of 35 m of 450 mm diameter sewer, 100 m of 750 mm diameter sewer at and 30 m of 1 200 mm diameter sewer,

— design, construction and commissioning of a 1 400 mm ID combined sewer beneath the bed of the river blackwater for a length of approximately 60 m installed via an open cut methodology,

— ancillary fittings and connections on above pipelines,

— maintenance of flows to existing pumping station until the completion of the contract or the commissioning of the new pumping station (by others).

Duration: 24 months
Additional information:

Title of the lot: Lot 2 — Cork City
Lot number: 2
Short description:

Cork City Watermain Rehabilitation – eastern strategic link phase 2 contract.

Irish Water proposes to replace the existing 450 mm diameter cast-iron water main between Shanakiel Reservoir and popes quay with a new 600 mm diameter trunk water main, in order to increase its hydraulic capacity and performance and increase security of supply to the city centre. In conjunction with the proposed trunk main replacement, Irish Water proposes to replace selected elements of the existing distribution network that are in poor condition and /or exhibit poor performance 2,4 km of 600 mm diameter trunk water main between Mulgrave Road and Shanakiel Reservoir, including all valves, fittings and connections; 300 m of 150 mm diameter distribution water main at the North Mall including all valves, fittings, mains tie-ins and water service connections.

Cork City Water Supply Scheme (G) Network.

(Western Trunk Main).

Irish Water proposes to lay a 600 mm diameter trunk water main between the Cork Harbour and City Water Supply Scheme (WSS) at Curraheen and the Lee Road Water Treatment Plant (WTP) which supplies the Cork City WSS. This trunk main will provide a strategic link between the two water supplies to ensure security of supply and also reduce the current demand on the Lee Road WTP.

— 5,5 km of 600 mm diameter trunk watermain from Curraheen north of the N40, to the Lee Road Water Treatment Plant, including all valves, fittings and connections,

— connection to 1 500 mm diameter Cork Harbour and City trunk water main at Curraheen,

— trenchless crossing of the River Lee.

(Shanakiel Rising and Distribution Mains).

Irish Water proposes to replace the majority of the rising mains that supply the high, intermediate and low-level city reservoirs with a staged pumping system from the Lee Road WTP. In addition, it is proposed to replace three existing low-level distribution mains from Shanakiel reservoir with a single trunk main and provide an extension to the Western Trunk Main beyond the Lee Road WTP to connect it directly to the existing Shanakiel Reservoir’s trunk distribution network.

— 780 m of 1,000 mm diameter rising main, including all valves, fittings and connections,

— 300 m of 700 mm diameter trunk Main, including all valves, fittings and connections,

— 240 m of 600 mm diameter rising main, including all valves, fittings and connections,

— 480 m of 500 mm diameter trunk water main, including all valves, fittings and connections,

— 50 m of 450/400 mm diameter pipework at the new Harbour View Road pump station, including all valves, fittings and connections,

— a new pumping station at the Shanakiel Road low level reservoir, which will supply the Harbour View Road intermediate level reservoir.

— a new pumping station at the Harbour View Road intermediate level reservoir, which will supply the Churchfield high level reservoir,

— upgrade of existing access to Shanakiel Reservoir to improve visibility of vehicles egressing the site,

— demolition of an existing building.

Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: County Cork (Mallow and Cork City).

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: Refer to PQQ documents.
Contract execution
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

Requests to participate may be submitted by single entities or by groups of service providers. A group will not be required to convert into a specific legal form in order to submit a request to participate, but may if the contracting entity considers it necessary to ensure that the contract is carried out to its satisfaction, be required to do so prior to award of the contract. The contracting entity also reserves the right to contract with each member of the group on the basis of joint and several liability, or with one member of the group as a main contractor with a number of sub-contractors or on any other basis as the contracting entity considers appropriate.

Procedure
Envisaged number of candidates: 6
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Irish 🗣️
Tender validity period: 6 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: IE3191327JH
Contact
Contact point: Tender Admin
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/129496 🌏
Documents URL: www.etenders.gov.ie 🌏
URL for participation: www.etenders.gov.ie 🌏
URL for documents: www.etenders.gov.ie 🌏

Reference
Additional information

You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict & no submissions will be possible after the date & time specified in the PQQ documents. Please note that all tenders are electronic, as such no paper copies will be accepted or read. Please submit via the etenders system not later than 12:00 hrs local time Thursday 17.5.2018.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: High Court Central Office, Four Courts, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +35 318886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:

Please refer to Statutory Instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (award of contracts by utility undertaking) (review procedures) Regulations 2010 (and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2)).

Source: OJS 2018/S 074-165447 (2018-04-13)

Additional information (2018-05-08)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water and the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City and Co. Lot 1: A number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town. Lot 2: As part of the implementation of a Water Conservation Project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: — are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures, — have water quality issues, — have reached the end of their service life, — have insufficient hydraulic capacity, and — are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Sewer mains 📦

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: PO Box 900, Webworks, Eglinton Street

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-05-08 📅
Submission deadline: 2018-05-24 📅
Publication date: 2018-05-12 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 090-204872
Refers to notice: 2018/S 074-165447
OJ-S issue: 90

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water and the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City and Co.

Lot 1: A number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town.

Lot 2: As part of the implementation of a Water Conservation Project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that:

— are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures,

— have water quality issues,

— have reached the end of their service life,

— have insufficient hydraulic capacity, and

— are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Source: OJS 2018/S 090-204872 (2018-05-08)

Additional information (2018-05-22)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment & distribution of drinking water & the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City & Co. — Lot 1: a number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the Urban wastewater treatment directive & are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town. — Lot 2: as part of the implementation of a water conservation project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures; have water quality issues; have reached the end of their service life; have insufficient hydraulic capacity & are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-05-22 📅
Publication date: 2018-05-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 097-222158
OJ-S issue: 97

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

— Lot 1: a number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the Urban wastewater treatment directive & are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town.

— Lot 2: as part of the implementation of a water conservation project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures; have water quality issues; have reached the end of their service life; have insufficient hydraulic capacity & are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network.

As per PQQ document.

Source: OJS 2018/S 097-222158 (2018-05-22)

Contract award notice (2021-03-29)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Irish Water is responsible for the treatment and distribution of drinking water and the provision of sewer collection systems in Cork City and Co. Lot 1: A number of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) have been identified for removal from the sewer network in Mallow as they are currently in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive and are the subject of an European Court of Justice (ECJ) infringement notice. The removal of these CSOs will necessitate new trunk sewers to be constructed within the town. Lot 2: As part of the implementation of a Water Conservation Project for the city, watermains in the network have been identified for rehabilitation. These include watermains that: • are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures; • have water quality issues; • have reached the end of their service life; • have insufficient hydraulic capacity and are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: PO Box 900, Webworks, Eglinton Street, Co. Cork

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-03-29 📅
Publication date: 2021-04-02 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 065-168862
OJ-S issue: 65
Additional information

You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict and no submissions will be possible after the date and time specified in the PQQ documents. Please note that all tenders are electronic, as such no paper copies will be accepted or read. Please submit via the Etenders system not later than 12.00 local time Thursday 17 May 2018.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

• are not suitably responsive to active leakage control measures;

• have water quality issues;

• have reached the end of their service life;

• have insufficient hydraulic capacity and are impacting on the efficient operation of the existing network. As per PQQ document.

Title of the lot: Lot 1: Mallow
Short description:

• removal of 9 No CSOs;

• design, Construction and commissioning of new combined sewers and associated access manholes, total length approximately 5.5 km (375 mm-1500 mm diameter), installed using open cut techniques;

• trenchless construction of 35 m of 450 mm diameter sewer, 100 m of 750 mm diameter sewer at and 30 m of 1 200 mm diameter sewer;

• design, construction and commissioning of a 1400 mm ID combined sewer beneath the bed of the River Blackwater for a length of approximately 60 m installed via an open cut methodology

• ancillary fittings and connections on above pipelines;

• maintenance of flows to existing pumping station until the completion of the contract or the commissioning of the new pumping station (by others).

Additional information:

Title of the lot: Lot 2: Cork City
Short description:

Cork City Watermain Rehabilitation – Eastern Strategic Link Phase 2 Contract.

Irish Water proposes to replace the existing 450 mm diameter cast-iron water main between Shanakiel Reservoir and Popes Quay with a new 600 mm diameter trunk water main, in order to increase its hydraulic capacity and performance and increase security of supply to the city centre. In conjunction with the proposed trunk main replacement, Irish Water proposes to replace selected elements of the existing distribution network that are in poor condition and/or exhibit poor performance.2.4 km of 600 mm diameter trunk water main between Mulgrave Road and Shanakiel Reservoir, including all valves, fittings and connections; 300 m of 150 mm diameter distribution water main at the North Mall including all valves, fittings, mains tie-ins and water service connections.

Cork City Water Supply Scheme (G) Network

(Western Trunk Main)

• 5.5 km of 600 mm diameter trunk watermain from Curraheen north of the N40, to the Lee Road Water Treatment Plant, including all valves, fittings and connections;

• connection to 1 500 mm diameter Cork Harbour and City trunk water main at Curraheen;

• Trenchless crossing of the River Lee;

• Cork City Water Supply Scheme (G) Network (Shanakiel Rising and Distribution Mains).

• 780 m of 1 000 mm diameter rising main, including all valves, fittings and connections;

• 300 m of 700 mm diameter trunk Main, including all valves, fittings and connections;

• 240 m of 600 mm diameter rising main, including all valves, fittings and connections;

• 480 m of 500 mm diameter trunk water main, including all valves, fittings and connections;

• 50 m of 450/400 mm diameter pipework at the new Harbour View Road pump station, including all valves, fittings and connections;

• a new pumping station at the Shanakiel Road low level reservoir, which will supply the Harbour View Road intermediate level reservoir;

• a new pumping station at the Harbour View Road intermediate level reservoir, which will supply the Churchfield high level reservoir;

• upgrade of existing access to Shanakiel Reservoir to improve visibility of vehicles egressing the site;

• demolition of an existing building.

Additional information:

You must submit through the etenders system before the deadline. The submission deadline is strict and no submissions will be possible after the date and time specified in the PQQ documents. Please note that all tenders are electronic, as such NO paper copies will be accepted or read. Please submit via the Etenders system not later than 12.00 local time Thursday 17 May 2018.

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-02-15 📅
Name: Ward and Burke Construction Ltd
Postal town: Galway
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3

Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines:

Please refer to statutory instrument 131 of 2010, European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utility Undertaking) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (and in particular Regulation 7 and 10(2)).

Source: OJS 2021/S 065-168862 (2021-03-29)

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