Design, Production and Installation of a Mechanical Bearing System
Commissioners of Irish Lights
Irish Lights, have used mercury to rotate large revolving Fresnel lenses in lighthouse applications since the late 1800s. The system provided a near frictionless environment for the rotation of these large lenses. While there is no immediate statutory requirement to remove mercury from lighthouses, it has been Irish Lights’ policy that where major re-engineering capital projects are being carried out, the opportunity is taken to remove mercury from these installations. Irish Lights undertook a project to trial a mechanical slew bearing solution using a redundant lens at Tory Island lighthouse, starting in 2015. The trial was carried out over a number of years to ensure reliable operation of the solution. Over the next 6 years, Irish Lights will be carrying out engineering upgrade works to a number of high profile land or island based stations.
DeadlineThe time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-08-24. The procurement was published on 2020-07-23.
SuppliersThe following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Who? What?- • Bearings › Roller bearings
- • Mechanical installations › Mechanical engineering installation works
- • Miscellaneous engineering services › Mechanical engineering services
Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2020-07-23 | Contract notice |
| 2020-12-04 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2020-07-23)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Bearings
Reference number: Slew Bearing Installation
Short description:
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Bearings 📦
Additional CPV: Bearings 📦
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: Regional or local Agency/Office
Awarding authority name: Commissioners of Irish Lights
Postal address: Harbour Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dub
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.irishlights.ie 🌏
E-mail: sean.phelan@irishlights.ie 📧
Phone: +353 12715400 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=170437&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=170437&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-07-23 📅
Submission deadline: 2020-08-24 📅
Publication date: 2020-07-28 📅
Start date: 2020-09-30 📅
End date: 2027-09-30 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 144-353746
OJ-S issue: 144
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 500 000 EUR 💰
Lot number: 1
Short description:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 500 000 EUR 💰
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As stated in the procurement documents.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 10:30
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender opening date: 2020-08-24 📅
Tender opening time: 10:30
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Sean Phelan
Internet address: www.irishlights.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/337 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=170437&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Complementary information
Review body
Name: Commissioners of Irish Lights
Postal address: Harbour Road
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: A96 H500
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 12715400 📞
E-mail: procurement@irishlights.ie 📧
Internet address: www.irishlights.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2020/S 144-353746 (2020-07-23)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Bearings
Reference number: Slew Bearing Installation
Short description:
Irish Lights, have used mercury to rotate large revolving Fresnel lenses in lighthouse applications since the late 1800s. The system provided a near frictionless environment for the rotation of these large lenses. While there is no immediate statutory requirement to remove mercury from lighthouses, it has been Irish Lights’ policy that where major re-engineering capital projects are being carried out, the opportunity is taken to remove mercury from these installations. Irish Lights undertook a project to trial a mechanical slew bearing solution using a redundant lens at Tory Island lighthouse, starting in 2015. The trial was carried out over a number of years to ensure reliable operation of the solution. Over the next 6 years, Irish Lights will be carrying out engineering upgrade works to a number of high profile land or island based stations.
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Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Bearings 📦
Additional CPV: Bearings 📦
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: Regional or local Agency/Office
Awarding authority name: Commissioners of Irish Lights
Postal address: Harbour Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dub
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.irishlights.ie 🌏
E-mail: sean.phelan@irishlights.ie 📧
Phone: +353 12715400 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=170437&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=170437&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-07-23 📅
Submission deadline: 2020-08-24 📅
Publication date: 2020-07-28 📅
Start date: 2020-09-30 📅
End date: 2027-09-30 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 144-353746
OJ-S issue: 144
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 500 000 EUR 💰
Lot number: 1
Short description:
Irish Lights, along with the other lighthouse authorities around the world, have used mercury to rotate large revolving Fresnel lenses in lighthouse applications since the late 1800s. The system provided a near frictionless environment for the rotation of these large lenses. Mercury is a toxic substance and, despite the many years of reliable service, there is increasing European and International legislation restricting its use, storage and transport. While there is no immediate statutory requirement to remove mercury from lighthouses, it has been Irish Lights’ policy for a number of years that where major re-engineering capital projects are being carried out at lighthouses, the opportunity is taken to remove mercury from these installations. There is no other liquid medium currently available to replace mercury. Accordingly, alternative solutions are designed on a station by station basis to provide the required visual Aid to Navigation.
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Irish Lights undertook a project to trial a mechanical slew bearing solution using a redundant lens at Tory Island lighthouse, commencing in 2015. The lens at this lighthouse is a biform (two-tier) hyper-radial lens, one of the largest in service. The trial was carried out over a number of years to ensure reliable operation of the bearing solution. The success of this trial led to the re-establishment of the light utilising the existing Fresnel lens with a low powered LED light source installed within the existing lens in 2019.
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Over the next 6 years, Irish Lights will be carrying out engineering upgrade works to a number of high profile land or island based stations, most of which are designated as listed buildings in Northern Ireland or Protected Structures in the Republic of Ireland.
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A key objective of these works is the retention of the rotating Fresnel lenses which Irish Lights recognise as important to the heritage of the stations and the local areas.
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As stated in the procurement documents.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 10:30
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender opening date: 2020-08-24 📅
Tender opening time: 10:30
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Sean Phelan
Internet address: www.irishlights.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/337 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=170437&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Complementary information
Review body
Name: Commissioners of Irish Lights
Postal address: Harbour Road
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: A96 H500
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 12715400 📞
E-mail: procurement@irishlights.ie 📧
Internet address: www.irishlights.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2020/S 144-353746 (2020-07-23)
Contract award notice (2020-12-04)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 738 104 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Place of performance
NUTS region: United Kingdom 🏙️
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: Harbour Road, Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-04 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-09 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 240-593224
Refers to notice: 2020/S 144-353746
OJ-S issue: 240
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title of the lot: Slew Bearing
Short description:
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Rathlin Island.
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Response to specification requirements and RAMS
Quality criterion (weighting): 45
Quality criterion (name): Programme
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Price (weighting): 50
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-12-01 📅
Name: Amon Electronics Ltd (fittest.ie)
National registration number: IE8265201K
Postal address: Unit W3E Tougher Business Park, Co. Kildare
Postal town: Naas
Postal code: W91 W08C
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 45438187 📞
E-mail: sales@amonelectronics.com 📧
Internet address: http://www.amonelectronics.com 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 738 104 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 5
Source: OJS 2020/S 240-593224 (2020-12-04)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 738 104 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Place of performance
NUTS region: United Kingdom 🏙️
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: Harbour Road, Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-04 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-09 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 240-593224
Refers to notice: 2020/S 144-353746
OJ-S issue: 240
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title of the lot: Slew Bearing
Short description:
Over the next 6 years, Irish Lights will be carrying out engineering upgrade works to a number of high profile land or island based stations, most of which are designated as Listed Buildings in Northern Ireland or Protected Structures in the Republic of Ireland.
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Main site or place of performance: Rathlin Island.
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Response to specification requirements and RAMS
Quality criterion (weighting): 45
Quality criterion (name): Programme
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Price (weighting): 50
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-12-01 📅
Name: Amon Electronics Ltd (fittest.ie)
National registration number: IE8265201K
Postal address: Unit W3E Tougher Business Park, Co. Kildare
Postal town: Naas
Postal code: W91 W08C
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 45438187 📞
E-mail: sales@amonelectronics.com 📧
Internet address: http://www.amonelectronics.com 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 738 104 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 5
Source: OJS 2020/S 240-593224 (2020-12-04)
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