Multi Party Framework Agreement for Planning Services

Land Development Agency

The contracting authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of framework agreements for planning services in three lots:
• Lot 1: Strategic planning services including, master planning, urban design and ancillary services;
• Lot 2: Development management planning;
• Lot 3: Planning consultancy services.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-08-09. The procurement was published on 2021-07-07.

Who?

• Land Development Agency

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland › Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2021-07-07	Contract notice

Contract notice (2021-07-07)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Urban planning services
Short description:

The contracting authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of framework agreements for planning services in three lots: • Lot 1: Strategic planning services including, master planning, urban design and ancillary services; • Lot 2: Development management planning; • Lot 3: Planning consultancy services.

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: Urban planning services 📦
Additional CPV: Architectural, engineering and planning services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted 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: Land Development Agency
Postal address: 2nd Floor Ashford House
Postal code: Tara Street
Postal town: Dublin 2
Contact
Internet address: https://lda.ie 🌏
E-mail: info@greenville.ie 📧
Phone: +353 14020114 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=192869&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=192869&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-07-07 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-08-09 📅
Publication date: 2021-07-12 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 132-351315
OJ-S issue: 132
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 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 web site (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 2GB 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) 21 243 92 77 (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: 194077) 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 contract/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; 10) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended; 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 IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system we have indicated that it is envisaged that the maximum number of participants to the framework agreement is 5. Please note the following in this regard: Lot 1: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 5 subject to that number qualifying; Lot 2: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 5 subject to that number qualifying; Lot 3: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 3 subject to that number qualifying.

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 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 web site (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 2GB 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) 21 243 92 77 (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: 194077) 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 contract/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;

10) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended;

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 IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system we have indicated that it is envisaged that the maximum number of participants to the framework agreement is 5. Please note the following in this regard:

Lot 1: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 5 subject to that number qualifying;

Lot 2: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 5 subject to that number qualifying;

Lot 3: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 3 subject to that number qualifying.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

The contracting authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of framework agreements for planning services in three lots:

• Lot 1: Strategic planning services including, master planning, urban design and ancillary services;

• Lot 2: Development management planning;

• Lot 3: Planning consultancy services.

Estimated total value: 40 000 000 EUR 💰
Maximum number of lots per tenderer: 1
Title of the lot: Strategic Planning Services Including, Master Planning, Urban Design and Ancillary Services
Lot number: 1
Short description:

A core purpose of the LDA is to proactively identify where public land could be used to develop much needed housing and to ensure an adequate serviced land supply in the long term. Related to this, a key role of the LDA is to provide services to local authorities in relation to the development of sites for housing and urban development/regeneration. These include the development of large scale, multi-tenure or mixed-use development/regeneration sites and generally require the preparation of masterplans/spatial frameworks which assess and establish a framework for the planning and development potential of these strategic urban regeneration sites.

To this end LDA intends to establish a multi party framework agreement to provide strategic planning advice, masterplanning and urban design services, research studies, policy and strategy advice and other related services.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 15 000 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals:

The maximum duration of the framework agreement will be three (3) years subject to satisfactory annual review of performance. This may be extended for one (1) additional year.

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.

Title of the lot: Development Management Planning
Lot number: 2
Short description:

A key role of the Land Development Agency is to activate and develop state land to deliver much needed housing in the short and medium term and ensure a sustainable pipeline of serviced land supply into the longer term. The LDA is currently exploring several development projects and strategic development areas, with a view to delivering compact urban growth on state lands. The preferred sites are brownfield and accessible, urban locations thereby presenting the optimum opportunity to deliver sustainable residentially led urban regeneration in accordance with National and Regional planning policies. To this end LDA intends to establish a multi party framework agreement to provide development management planning services to provide planning technical advice, including Master-planning design and general planning strategies including feasibility, master-planning, preliminary design, planning application, and detailed design.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 20 000 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Planning Consultancy Services
Lot number: 3
Short description:

LDA intends to establish a multi party framework agreement to provide planning consultancy services relating to a range of general town planning and other related services to include Management of multi-disciplinary consortium/team,development plan and planning applications monitoring and submissions, research studies, policy and strategy advice and reports and other related services.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 5 000 000 EUR 💰

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 194077.

Contract execution
Contract performance conditions:

As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 194077.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 10
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 194077

Envisaged number of candidates: 8
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:

As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 194077.

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

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: Ireland
Contact
Contact point: Jeanne Copeland
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/165460 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=192869&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

2) Suppliers must register their interest on the eTenders web site (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 2GB 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) 21 243 92 77 (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: 194077) 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 contract/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;

10) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended;

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 IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system we have indicated that it is envisaged that the maximum number of participants to the framework agreement is 5. Please note the following in this regard:

Lot 1: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 5 subject to that number qualifying;

Lot 2: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 5 subject to that number qualifying;

Lot 3: Envisaged maximum number of participants is 3 subject to that number qualifying.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 118886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.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.

Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Consult Legal Advisor
Postal town: D
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Consult legal advisor
Source: OJS 2021/S 132-351315 (2021-07-07)

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