The Provision of Temporary Agency Staff

Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority

The establishment of 2 multi-party Framework Agreements for the provision of temporary agency staff:
Lot 1: General Operations Resources;
Lot 2: Specialist Resources.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-04-08. The procurement was published on 2019-03-08.

Suppliers

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

Who?

• Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority

What?

• Recruitment services › Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2019-03-08	Contract notice
2019-09-26	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2019-03-08)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Recruitment services
Reference number: HR/2019/03 & HR/2019/04
Short description:

The establishment of 2 multi-party Framework Agreements for the provision of temporary agency staff: Lot 1: General Operations Resources; Lot 2: Specialist Resources.

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: Recruitment services 📦
Additional CPV: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff 📦
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: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority
Postal address: 88-95 Amiens Street
Postal code: Dublin 1
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: https://www.failteireland.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18847731 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=143542&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=143542&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-03-08 📅
Submission deadline: 2019-04-08 📅
Publication date: 2019-03-13 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 051-117467
OJ-S issue: 51
Additional information

Additional information — framework: 1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities; 5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the Framework Agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the Framework Agreement the Contracting Authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the Contracting Authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework 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, the Framework Agreement or any contract awarded under the Framework Agreement 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

Additional information — framework:

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the Framework Agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the Framework Agreement the Contracting Authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the Contracting Authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework 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, the Framework Agreement or any contract awarded under the Framework Agreement 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
Short description:

The establishment of 2 multi-party Framework Agreements for the provision of temporary agency staff:

Lot 1: General Operations Resources;

Lot 2: Specialist Resources.

Estimated total value: 2 000 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: General Operations Resources
Lot number: 1
Short description: Provision of temporary agency staff.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 000 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 48 months
Title of the lot: Specialist Resources
Lot number: 2

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

As stated in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document available for downloading from the Irish Government's Procurement website www.etenders.gov.ie

Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:

As stated in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document available for downloading from the Irish Government's Procurement website www.etenders.gov.ie

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Number of participants to be contemplated: 5
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2020-04-08 📅
Tender opening date: 2019-04-08 📅
Tender opening time: 12:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Padraigh McDonnell
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=143542&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

Additional information — framework:

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the Framework Agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the Framework Agreement the Contracting Authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the Contracting Authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework 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, the Framework Agreement or any contract awarded under the Framework Agreement 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
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:

The Contracting Authority will not conclude this Framework Agreement to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument SI No. 284 of 2016, until after the expiry of the standstill period which commences on the day following the date of notification of concerned candidates and tenderers. The duration of the standstill period will be 14 calendar days where notifications are sent electronically or by fax and 16 calendar days where these are sent by any other means. The Statutory Instrument mentioned above provides that review procedures are available in the High Court to a person who has or has had an interest in obtaining the Framework Agreement and alleges that he or she has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by an infringement of the law in relation to that Framework Agreement.

Source: OJS 2019/S 051-117467 (2019-03-08)

Contract award notice (2019-09-26)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The establishment of 2 multi-party framework agreements for the provision of temporary agency staff: Lot 1: General Operations Resources; Lot 2: Specialist Resources.

Total value of the procurement: 1 000 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-09-26 📅
Publication date: 2019-10-01 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 189-460134
Refers to notice: 2019/S 051-117467
OJ-S issue: 189
Additional information

Additional Information — Framework: 1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities; 5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework 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, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement 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

Additional Information — Framework:

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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 the framework will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities;

5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework 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, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement 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
Short description:

The establishment of 2 multi-party framework agreements for the provision of temporary agency staff:

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Access to relevant qualified resources
Quality criterion (weighting): 25 %
Quality criterion (name): Timescales and proposed process for placement
Quality criterion (weighting): 20 %
Quality criterion (name): Resources and account management
Quality criterion (weighting): 15 %
Price (weighting): 40 %

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2019-09-20 📅
Name: Brightwater Recruitment Specialists
National registration number: 8286849K
Postal address: 36 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 16621000 📞
E-mail: a.clarke@brightwater.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.brightwater.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 1 000 000 EUR 💰
Name: Cpl
National registration number: 287278
Postal address: 8 — 34 Percy Place
Phone: +353 16146158 📞
E-mail: shannon.kelly@cpl.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.cpl.com 🌏
Name: Gilligan Black Recruitment Ltd
National registration number: 6427440M
Postal address: 46 Lower Leeson St
Phone: +353 17999100 📞
E-mail: theresa@gilliganblack.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.gilliganblack.ie 🌏
Name: Lex Consultancy
National registration number: 9660328W
Postal address: 15-17 South Leinster Street
Phone: +353 16633033 📞
E-mail: michelle@lexconsultancy.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.lexconsultancy.ie 🌏
Name: Morgan McKinley
National registration number: IE4726096A
Postal address: Connaught House, 1 Burlington Road
Phone: +44 7584680748 📞
E-mail: ncorcoran@premiergp.com 📧
Internet address: http://www.morganmckinley.ie 🌏
Name: Orange Recruitment
National registration number: 9829458B
Postal address: 46 Dawson Street
Phone: +353 16170033 📞
E-mail: mairead.fleming@ascension.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.orangerecruitment.ie 🌏
Name: PE Global
National registration number: 6418764O
Postal address: 8 Eastgate Ave, Eastgate, Little Island
Postal town: Cork
Phone: +353 214297900 📞
E-mail: linda.omahoney@peglobal.net 📧
Internet address: http://www.peglobal.net 🌏
Name: Servisource Recruitment
National registration number: 297476
Postal address: Quayside Business Park
Postal town: Dundalk
Postal code: Mill Street
Phone: +353 429352723 📞
E-mail: declanmurphy@servisource.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.servisource.ie 🌏
Postal code: Cork
Name: Sigmar Recruitment Consultants Ltd.
National registration number: 353252
Postal address: 13 Hume Street
Postal code: Dublin 2
Phone: +353 14744612 📞
E-mail: brudden@sigmar.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.sigmar.ie 🌏
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 19

Reference
Additional information

Additional Information — Framework:

1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (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;

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

5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the framework agreement with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded the framework agreement the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to admit the next highest scoring tenderer to the framework 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, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement 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
Information about review deadlines:

The contracting authority will not conclude this framework agreement to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument SI No 284 of 2016, until after the expiry of the standstill period which commences on the day following the date of notification of concerned candidates and tenderers. The duration of the standstill period will be 14 calendar days where notifications are sent electronically or by fax and 16 calendar days where these are sent by any other means. The statutory instrument mentioned above provides that review procedures are available in the High Court to a person who has or has had an interest in obtaining the framework agreement and alleges that he or she has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by an infringement of the law in relation to that framework agreement.

Source: OJS 2019/S 189-460134 (2019-09-26)

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