Recruitment Services for Technical Roles — Multi Party framework Agreement in Two Lots

Health and Safety Authority

The contracting authority is inviting proposals from suitably qualified service providers to establish a multi-party framework agreement for the provision of recruitment services of technical roles in two lots:
• Lot 1: General Technical Staff, to include Inspectors and other general professional/technical roles.
• Lot 2: Specialist Technical Roles, which includes Specialists/Inspectors.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-11-02. The procurement was published on 2020-10-15.

Who?

• Health and Safety Authority

What?

• Personnel services except placement and supply services › Assessment centre services for recruitment

Where?

• Eastern and Midland › Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2020-10-15	Contract notice

Contract notice (2020-10-15)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Recruitment services
Short description:

The contracting authority is inviting proposals from suitably qualified service providers to establish a multi-party framework agreement for the provision of recruitment services of technical roles in two lots: • Lot 1: General Technical Staff, to include Inspectors and other general professional/technical roles. • Lot 2: Specialist Technical Roles, which includes Specialists/Inspectors.

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: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin 🏙️

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: Health and Safety Authority
Postal address: The Metropolitan Building, James Joyce Street
Postal town: Dublin 1
Contact
Internet address: https://www.hsa.ie/eng/ 🌏
E-mail: john_moran@hsa.ie 📧
Phone: +353 16147062 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=175411&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=175411&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-10-15 📅
Submission deadline: 2020-11-02 📅
Publication date: 2020-10-20 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 204-496505
OJ-S issue: 204
Additional information

Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 177631.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

• Lot 1: General Technical Staff, to include Inspectors and other general professional/technical roles.

• Lot 2: Specialist Technical Roles, which includes Specialists/Inspectors.

Estimated total value: 700 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: General Technical Staff
Lot number: 1
Short description:

The Authority is inviting proposals from suitable qualified service providers to establish a multi-party framework agreements for the provision of recruitment services as follows:

• Lot 1: General Technical Staff, which comprise Inspectors and Accreditation Officers Inspectors carry out-site inspections and investigations to ensure compliance with occupational safety and health standards in workplaces as diverse as construction, manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail, etc. Accreditation Officers are part of technical teams that assess organisations such as laboratories, medical examination laboratories, certification and inspection bodies for compliance to international standards.

Inspectors and Accreditation Officers must have an honours degree at level 8 NFQ in a relevant discipline such as engineering, science, occupational safety and health, etc. Panels of successful candidates will be established from competitions held under this framework.

Duration: 24 months
Description of renewals:

The framework agreement may be extended by two further periods of 1 year up to a maximum of 4 years, subject to annual review, satisfactory performance, business needs and budgetary constraints. For the avoidance of doubt, the contracting authority confirms that the period of any contracts awarded under the framework agreement may extend beyond the date of expiry of the agreement.

Additional information:

Please consult the associated documentation, which contains full instructions regarding the submission of tenders and is available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 177631.

Title of the lot: Specialist Technical Staff
Lot number: 2
Short description:

• Lot 2: Specialist Technical Roles, which includes specialists/inspectors. These roles may be inspection type roles or policy development roles. In addition to chemists, biologists, chemical engineers, occupational hygienists, ergonomists, organisational psychologists and occupational health/medical specialists, we may also require microbiologists, virologists, toxicologists, eco-toxicologists, and other niche disciplines.

Note: it is anticipated that additional sourcing strategies may be required for lot 2 given the nature of the roles.

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

As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 177631.

Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:

As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 177631.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Accelerated procedure:

Accelerated open procedure — due to urgency in meeting the Governments response to Covid-19, the contracting authority needs to have these services in place as soon as possible.

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: 12 months
Tender opening date: 2020-11-02 📅
Tender opening time: 12:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: John Moran
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1225 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=175411&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

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) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to respond electronically to the competition. There is a maximum upload limit of 2 GB per document on eTenders. Documents larger than this should be divided into smaller files prior to upload or zipped.

3) 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) 212439277 (9 a.m.-17.30 p.m. GMT).

4) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie (RFT ID:177631) as a specific question. Responses will be circulated to those tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on www.etenders.gov.ie The details of the person making a query will not be disclosed when circulating the response.

5) This is the sole call for competition for this framework.

6) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.

7) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.

8) It will be a condition of award that the successful tenderer is and remains tax compliant.

9) 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.

11) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of the procurement documents with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, respondents are advised to ensure that they return completed documentation in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.

12) At Section V.1.3) we have indicated that the five will be included in the framework. For the avoidance of doubt the contracting authority intends to appoint the following number of economic operators to each framework:

The envisaged number of operators for each framework is as follows:

Lot 1: Three (3),

Lot 2: Five (5).

Subject to that number meeting the minimum rule set out in the procurement documentation.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: High Court Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Information about review deadlines:

The framework is covered by the application of the Remedies Directive and the relevant standstill period applied at time of notification.

Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Consult your legal advisor
Postal town: Ireland
Source: OJS 2020/S 204-496505 (2020-10-15)

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