1) It will be a condition for the award of any contract by the health service executive that the successful tenderer and all sub-contractors (if applicable) produce a valid tax clearance certificate from the revenue commissioners in compliance with Circular (43) 2006 (as amended) and that the certificate will be maintained for the duration of the contract and will be on a 12 month basis. In the case of a non-resident tenderer, a statement of suitability from the revenue commissioners will be required;
2) Suppliers must register their interest on the Irish Government procurement opportunities portal
www.etenders.gov.ie in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications;
3) Please note that all information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on
www.etenders.gov.ie only. Registration is free of charge. The health service executive will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties;
4) Hard copy submissions will not be accepted. Faxed or emailed submissions will not be accepted. Late submissions will be rejected unless the health service executive considers that this is due to a technical, clerical or administrative error.
5) Please note the following in making submissions:
— to enable submission of multiple documents concurrently, download and install the ‘Upload Manager ActiveX’ facility to your eTenders user profile. When using the ‘Upload Manager’ facility do not use the ‘Schedule’ option,
— instead, use only the ‘Upload’ option, which will enable monitoring of the upload,
— suppliers who do not use the upload manager can upload individual files, however please ensure to allow sufficient time for upload,
— there is a maximum upload limit of 2GB per file. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files or condensed in size (e.g. zip files) prior to upload,
— in order to submit a document to the electronic postbox, please note that you must click ‘Submit Response’. After submitting a response, the response may be modified and re-submitted as many times as may be necessary until the submission deadline has expired. Suppliers should be aware that the ‘Submit Response’ button will be disabled automatically upon the expiration of the response deadline,
— suppliers must ensure that they give themselves sufficient time to upload and submit all required documentation before the submission deadline. Suppliers should take into account the fact that upload speeds vary,
— should you experience difficulty when uploading documents please contact the eTenders support desk for technical assistance. Email
etenders@eu-supply.com or Telephone: 353 (0) 21 243 92 77 (9:00 a.m. – 17:30 p.m. GMT). Please also notify the health service executive of your difficulty as soon as practicable at
michael.quirey@hse.ie and in advance of the submission deadline.
6) Please see the etenders supplier guide for further information on using etenders.
https://www.etenders.gov.ie/Media/Default/SiteContent/UserGuides/CTM_Supplier_Manual_Dec2016.pdf
7) All queries regarding this tender must be submitted through
www.etenders.gov.ie. Queries must be in question format. Responses will be circulated to candidates/tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on
www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the party making the query will not be disclosed when circulating the response. All queries must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. (Irish time) on the 12.7.2019 to enable the issue of responses to all interested parties;
8) Please note that where documents are made available in both PDF and Word format, in the event of any discrepancy between the documents, the PDF version will take precedence.