Meitheal – The Irish Travel Trade Fair - is held annually each spring over two days. It is Fáilte Ireland’s largest tourism business to business event attracting approx. up to 700 delegates subject always to the maximum permitted under Government Guidelines annually. This tender is for future Meitheal workshops and is subject to any Government of Ireland restrictions at the relevant period. This workshop will be conducted to support the recovery of the industry. For Meitheal, Fáilte Ireland is seeking one package whereby we will secure fully serviced fit for purpose event space and workshop venue, catering and overseas Buyer 4* accommodation for the duration of the workshops.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-09-23.
The procurement was published on 2021-08-23.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Meitheal - The Irish Travel Trade Fair Venue for Workshop, Event Space, Catering and Accommodation for three years (2022, 2023, 2024)
CD/2021/10”
Products/services: Hotel meeting and conference services📦
Short description:
“Meitheal – The Irish Travel Trade Fair - is held annually each spring over two days. It is Fáilte Ireland’s largest tourism business to business event...”
Short description
Meitheal – The Irish Travel Trade Fair - is held annually each spring over two days. It is Fáilte Ireland’s largest tourism business to business event attracting approx. up to 700 delegates subject always to the maximum permitted under Government Guidelines annually. This tender is for future Meitheal workshops and is subject to any Government of Ireland restrictions at the relevant period. This workshop will be conducted to support the recovery of the industry. For Meitheal, Fáilte Ireland is seeking one package whereby we will secure fully serviced fit for purpose event space and workshop venue, catering and overseas Buyer 4* accommodation for the duration of the workshops.
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Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 900 000 💰
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Additional products/services: Hotel services📦
Additional products/services: Hotel accommodation services📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Dublin
Description of the procurement:
“Meitheal – The Irish Travel Trade Fair - is held annually each spring over two days. It is Fáilte Ireland’s largest tourism business to business event...”
Description of the procurement
Meitheal – The Irish Travel Trade Fair - is held annually each spring over two days. It is Fáilte Ireland’s largest tourism business to business event attracting approx. up to 700 delegates subject always to the maximum permitted under Government Guidelines annually. This tender is for future Meitheal workshops and is subject to any Government of Ireland restrictions at the relevant period. This workshop will be conducted to support the recovery of the industry. For Meitheal, Fáilte Ireland is seeking one package whereby we will secure fully serviced fit for purpose event space and workshop venue, catering and overseas Buyer 4* accommodation for the duration of the workshops. Should all the overseas Buyers B&B accommodation not be available in one hotel then please propose no more than three 4* hotels that can provide accommodation as required and be no more than 5km from the workshop venue. Proposals that can deliver the requirements as detailed within the tender document and based within 35km of Dublin Airport will be considered for this tender. Fáilte Ireland will contract with the successful tenderer directly for event space hire, venue hire, catering and Buyer accommodation. The successful tenderer will be expected to work collaboratively with Fáilte Ireland and our Event Management Company. In addition, Fáilte Ireland will require the successful tenderer to identify accommodation options available for Irish Industry (but not reserve this accommodation) the same distance from the workshop location as the overseas Buyer accommodation, all of which is detailed Section B of the ITT.
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Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 900 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 30
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions:
“As stated in the Invitation to Tender document available for downloading from the Irish Government's Procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie” Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions:
“As stated in the Invitation to Tender document available for downloading from the Irish Government's Procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie” Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract
Procedure Type of procedure
Open procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2021-09-23
12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender must be valid until: 2022-09-23 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2021-09-23
12:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): eTenders postbox
Complementary information Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
Additional information
“1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for...”
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (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 this contract will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) If for any reason it is not possible to conclude the contract with the designated successful tenderer emerging from this competitive process; or if having concluded contract the contracting authority considers that the successful tenderer has not met, or cannot meet its obligations; the contracting authority reserves the right to contract with the next highest scoring tenderer 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, 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 tender responses with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, tenderers/candidates are advised to ensure that they return FULLY COMPLETED tenders in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition at the evaluation stage.
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Name: High Court
Postal address: The Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin 7
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞
URL: http://www.courts.ie🌏 Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“The contracting authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument SI 130 of 2010,...”
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
The contracting authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Irish Statutory Instrument SI 130 of 2010, 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 contract 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 contract
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Source: OJS 2021/S 166-434569 (2021-08-23)
Contract award notice (2022-08-04) Contracting authority Name and addresses
Phone: +353 18847888📞
E-mail: procurement@failteireland.ie📧 Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
Object Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Fitness for Purpose of the proposed venue
Quality criterion (weighting): 25
Quality criterion (name): Catering Proposal
Quality criterion (weighting): 15
Quality criterion (name): Event Coordination/Project and Account Management
Quality criterion (weighting): 10
Quality criterion (name): Susitainability
Price (weighting): 40
Procedure Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2021/S 166-434569
Award of contract
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Contract Number: 1
Title:
“Meitheal - The Irish Travel Trade Fair Venue for Workshop, Event Space, Catering and Accommodation for three years (2022, 2023, 2024)” Information on non-award
No tenders or requests to participate were received or all were rejected
Source: OJS 2022/S 152-435485 (2022-08-04)