Festivals and Events Management

Fáilte Ireland

Festivals and Events Management.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2018-04-16. The procurement was published on 2018-03-16.

Suppliers

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

• GM Innovations

Who?

• Fáilte Ireland

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland › Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2018-03-16	Contract notice
2018-09-13	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2018-03-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Festival organisation services
Reference number: FE/2018/01
Short description: Festivals and Events Management.
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Festival organisation services 📦
Additional CPV: Cultural event organisation services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: 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: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Failte Ireland
Postal address: 88-95 Amiens Street
Postal code: Dublin 1
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.failteireland.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18847888 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=126493&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-03-16 📅
Submission deadline: 2018-04-16 📅
Publication date: 2018-03-20 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 055-121801
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.

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.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 300 000 EUR 💰
Estimated value excluding VAT: 300 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 24 months
Description of renewals: 12 months

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

Please see Invitation to Tender document, available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie

Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:

Please see Invitation to Tender document, available for downloading from www.etenders.gov.ie

Procedure
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2019-04-16 📅
Tender opening date: 2018-04-16 📅
Tender opening time: 12:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: Failte Ireland
Contact
Contact point: Maurice O'Reilly
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1169 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=126493&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

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.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Chief Registrar, The Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: www.courts.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2018/S 055-121801 (2018-03-16)

Contract award notice (2018-09-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description: Festivals and events management.
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2018-09-13 📅
Publication date: 2018-09-18 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2018/S 179-406204
Refers to notice: 2018/S 055-121801
OJ-S issue: 179
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.

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.

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Expertise of the proposed resource
Quality criterion (weighting): 30
Quality criterion (name): Festivals strategy
Price (weighting): 40

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2018-07-31 📅
Name: GM Innovations
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2

Reference
Additional information

4) Establishment of this contract will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.

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.

Source: OJS 2018/S 179-406204 (2018-09-13)

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