Rolling Stock Fire Suppression Cylinder Re-Certification and Maintenance

Iarnrod Eireann-Irish Rail

Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has a 5 year requirement for the services of a specialist company to undertake the inspection, re-certification, maintenance and overhaul of cylinders on fire suppression systems for their various fleets, applicants are being asked by IÉ to participate in a tender process for the provision of specialist cylinder maintenance services on fire suppression systems.
Please take time to read the content of the notice carefully and to ensure that you provide all requested information by the specified date.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-08-09. The procurement was published on 2019-07-23.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2019-07-23 Contract notice
2020-04-30 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2019-07-23)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Fire suppression system
Reference number: 7209
Short description:
Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has a 5 year requirement for the services of a specialist company to undertake the inspection, re-certification, maintenance and overhaul of cylinders on fire suppression systems for their various fleets, applicants are being asked by IÉ to participate in a tender process for the provision of specialist cylinder maintenance services on fire suppression systems. Please take time to read the content of the notice carefully and to ensure that you provide all requested information by the specified date.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Fire suppression system 📦
Additional CPV: Fire-extinguisher agents 📦
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: Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail
Postal address: Connolly Station
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.irishrail.ie 🌏
E-mail: david.osullivan@irishrail.ie 📧
Phone: +353 17034211 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=151109&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=151109&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-07-23 📅
Submission deadline: 2019-08-09 📅
Publication date: 2019-07-26 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 143-353441
OJ-S issue: 143

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has a 5 year requirement for the services of a specialist company to undertake the inspection, re-certification, maintenance and overhaul of cylinders on fire suppression systems for their various fleets, applicants are being asked by IÉ to participate in a tender process for the provision of specialist cylinder maintenance services on fire suppression systems.
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Please take time to read the content of the notice carefully and to ensure that you provide all requested information by the specified date.
Estimated total value: 500 000 EUR 💰
Short description:
The successful contractor will be required to undertake the following, in relation to IE’s maintenance requirements:
— Cylinder inspection,
— Cylinder pressure testing,
— Pressure sensor replacement,
— Replace all defective parts where necessary,
— Cylinders to be refilled and pressurised as per the specification,
— On completion each cylinder must be re-certified and returned to the IÉ depot with a letter of conformance and tagged with the new expiration date and individual serial number,
— If a cylinder is not in a condition to be overhauled then IÉ may require a new replacement cylinder to be sourced from the OEM.
Fleet and Depot Details:
— 22000 ICR – Portlaosie Traincare Depot,
— 2900 DMU – Drogheda DMU Depot,
— 2600/2800 – Limerick Depot,
— Mark IV/201/701 – Inchicore Depot.
The scope of the contract will involve undertaking the re-certification, maintenance and overhaul requirement for the various cylinders fitted to the Kiddie Graviner fire suppression systems on the above fleets.
PLEASE NOTE: The Fire Suppression Systems are Safety Critical and the CME Safety Standard document ‘CME-SMS-009 Supply, Overhaul, Storage and Contract Management of Safety Critical Requirements’ will apply to this requirement. This will require IÉ’s Supplier Assurance Co-ordinator to audit suppliers of Safety Critical Components to ascertain if they achieve technical acceptability to supply safety critical components and/or systems.
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Duration: 60 months
Description of renewals: Subject to renewal after conclusion of contract.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
For full details, please download a copy of the attached Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:
For full details, please download a copy of the attached Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0025
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2019-08-26 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 6 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: David O'Sullivan
Internet address: www.irishrail.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/433 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=151109&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information
Estimated timing for further notices: 48 months

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Central Office of the High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 N972
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886511 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Same as: Review body
Source: OJS 2019/S 143-353441 (2019-07-23)
Contract award notice (2020-04-30)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has a 5-year requirement for the services of a specialist company to undertake the inspection, re-certification, maintenance and overhaul of cylinders on fire suppression systems for their various fleets, applicants are being asked by IÉ to participate in a tender process for the provision of specialist cylinder maintenance services on fire suppression systems. Please take time to read the content of the notice carefully and to ensure that you provide all requested information by the specified date.
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Award criteria
Lowest price

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-04-30 📅
Publication date: 2020-05-05 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 087-209063
Refers to notice: 2019/S 143-353441
OJ-S issue: 87
Additional information
The contract lot was not awarded as the tender process was cancelled.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) has a 5-year requirement for the services of a specialist company to undertake the inspection, re-certification, maintenance and overhaul of cylinders on fire suppression systems for their various fleets, applicants are being asked by IÉ to participate in a tender process for the provision of specialist cylinder maintenance services on fire suppression systems.
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• cylinder inspection,
• cylinder pressure testing,
• pressure sensor replacement,
• replace all defective parts where necessary,
• cylinders to be refilled and pressurised as per the specification,
• on completion each cylinder must be re-certified and returned to the IÉ depot with a letter of conformance and tagged with the new expiration date and individual serial number,
• if a cylinder is not in a condition to be overhauled then IÉ may require a new replacement cylinder to be sourced from the OEM.
Fleet and depot details:
• 22000 ICR — Portlaosie Traincare Depot,
• 2900 DMU — Drogheda DMU Depot,
• 2600/2800 — Limerick Depot,
• Mark IV/201/701 — Inchicore Depot.
Please note: the fire suppression systems are safety critical and the CME Safety Standard document ‘CME-SMS-009 Supply, Overhaul, Storage and Contract Management of Safety Critical Requirements’ will apply to this requirement. This will require IÉ’s supplier assurance coordinator to audit suppliers of safety critical components to ascertain if they achieve technical acceptability to supply safety critical components and/or systems.
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Source: OJS 2020/S 087-209063 (2020-04-30)