Provision of Public Bus Services on the Eastern Coastal Commuter Corridor
National Transport Authority
The Authority wishes to procure a single public transport services contract for the operation of public bus services on the Eastern Coastal Commuter Corridor, currently planned as routes on two corridors intended to meet demand for transport within the area: Dublin-Drogheda (routes 101 and 10X) and Dublin-Wicklow (routes 133 and 131).
DeadlineThe time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-05-19. The procurement was published on 2021-04-07.
SuppliersThe following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Who? What?- • Public road transport services
- • Road transport services › Special-purpose road passenger-transport services
- • Support services for road transport › Bus station services
Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2021-04-07 | Contract notice |
| 2021-04-13 | Additional information |
| 2023-06-01 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2021-04-07)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Road transport services
Short description:
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: Road transport services 📦
Additional CPV: Public road transport services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Mid-East 🏙️
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: National or federal Agency/Office
Awarding authority name: National Transport Authority
Postal address: Dún Scéine, Iveagh Court, Harcourt Lane, Adelaide Road
Postal code: D02 WT20
Postal town: Dublin 2
Contact
Internet address: https://www.nationaltransport.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@nationaltransport.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18798300 📞
Fax: +353 18798333 📠
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186167&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186167&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-04-07 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-05-19 📅
Publication date: 2021-04-12 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 070-178579
OJ-S issue: 70
Additional information
Object
Scope of the procurement
Duration: 84 months
Description of renewals:
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As set out in procurement documents.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: As set out in procurement documents.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 6
Time of receipt of tenders: 16:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2021-08-13 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2022-02-09 📅
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: National Transport Authority
Contact
Contact point: Russell Stokes
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1149 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186167&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Ground Floor (East Wing), Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Postal code: D7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Road transport services
Short description:
The Authority wishes to procure a single public transport services contract for the operation of public bus services on the Eastern Coastal Commuter Corridor, currently planned as routes on two corridors intended to meet demand for transport within the area: Dublin-Drogheda (routes 101 and 10X) and Dublin-Wicklow (routes 133 and 131).
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Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Road transport services 📦
Additional CPV: Public road transport services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Mid-East 🏙️
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: National or federal Agency/Office
Awarding authority name: National Transport Authority
Postal address: Dún Scéine, Iveagh Court, Harcourt Lane, Adelaide Road
Postal code: D02 WT20
Postal town: Dublin 2
Contact
Internet address: https://www.nationaltransport.ie 🌏
E-mail: procurement@nationaltransport.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18798300 📞
Fax: +353 18798333 📠
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186167&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186167&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-04-07 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-05-19 📅
Publication date: 2021-04-12 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 070-178579
OJ-S issue: 70
Additional information
The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is postponed or cancelled. All costs incurred by interested parties in participating in this competition must be borne by them.
Any contract award will be subject to a number of preconditions, including production of a current tax clearance certificate from the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. The contracting authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageously procured. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted.
Refer to procurement documents for further information.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Duration: 84 months
Description of renewals:
The expected duration of the contract is for 5 years, with an option for a 2-year extension. The extension of the contract will be dependent on service requirements, performance and continued funding availability, and will be at the sole discretion of the Authority.
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Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: As set out in procurement documents.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: As set out in procurement documents.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 6
Time of receipt of tenders: 16:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2021-08-13 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2022-02-09 📅
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: National Transport Authority
Contact
Contact point: Russell Stokes
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1149 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=186167&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers relating to this contract award procedure irrespective of the outcome of the competition, or if the competition is postponed or cancelled. All costs incurred by interested parties in participating in this competition must be borne by them.
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Any contract award will be subject to a number of preconditions, including production of a current tax clearance certificate from the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland. The contracting authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageously procured. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not automatically be accepted.
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Refer to procurement documents for further information.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Ground Floor (East Wing), Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin 7
Postal code: D7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Information about review deadlines:
As set out in S.I. No 131/2010 European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utilities Undertakings) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (in particular Regulation 7 thereof).
Source: OJS 2021/S 070-178579 (2021-04-07)
Additional information (2021-04-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Support services for land transport 📦
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-04-13 📅
Publication date: 2021-04-16 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 074-189440
Refers to notice: 2021/S 070-178579
OJ-S issue: 74
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Source: OJS 2021/S 074-189440 (2021-04-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Authority wishes to procure a single public transport services contract for the operation of public bus services on the Eastern Coastal Commuter Corridor, currently planned as routes on two corridors intended to meet demand for transport within the area: Dublin-Drogheda (routes 101 and 101X) and Dublin-Wicklow (routes 133 and 131).
Routes 101 and 101X will take over current routes 101 and 101X with some timetable amendments; route 133 will take over current routes 133 and 133X with some timetable and route alignment alterations; route 131 will take over current route 133B with some timetable amendments.
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Document type: Additional information
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Support services for land transport 📦
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-04-13 📅
Publication date: 2021-04-16 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 074-189440
Refers to notice: 2021/S 070-178579
OJ-S issue: 74
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Authority wishes to procure a single public transport services contract for the operation of public bus services on the Eastern Coastal Commuter Corridor, currently planned as routes on two corridors intended to meet demand for transport within the area: Dublin-Drogheda (routes 101 and 101X) and Dublin-Wicklow (routes 133 and 131).
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Routes 101 and 101X will take over current routes 101 and 101X with some timetable amendments; route 133 will take over current routes 133 and 133X with some timetable and route alignment alterations; route 131 will take over current route 133B with some timetable amendments.
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Contract award notice (2023-06-01)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 52 555 823 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2023-06-01 📅
Publication date: 2023-06-06 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2023/S 107-335079
OJ-S issue: 107
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.3 Organisation Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 8
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.4 Supervision and Control Strategy Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 7
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.5 Authority Network Asset Maintenance Strategy Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 6
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.6 Safety Management Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 3
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.7 Revenue Protection Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 4
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.8 Customer Service Policy
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.9 Security Management Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 2
Price (weighting): 65
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2023-05-08 📅
Name: Bus Eireann
National registration number: 4812850M
Postal address: Broadstone
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: robert.omahony@buseireann.ie 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.buseireann.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 52 555 823 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines:
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 52 555 823 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2023-06-01 📅
Publication date: 2023-06-06 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2023/S 107-335079
OJ-S issue: 107
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.3 Organisation Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 8
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.4 Supervision and Control Strategy Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 7
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.5 Authority Network Asset Maintenance Strategy Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 6
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.6 Safety Management Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 3
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.7 Revenue Protection Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 4
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.8 Customer Service Policy
Quality criterion (weighting): 5
Quality criterion (name): 6.3.9 Security Management Plan
Quality criterion (weighting): 2
Price (weighting): 65
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2023-05-08 📅
Name: Bus Eireann
National registration number: 4812850M
Postal address: Broadstone
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: robert.omahony@buseireann.ie 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.buseireann.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 52 555 823 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Complementary information
Review body
Information about review deadlines:
As set out in S.I. No. 131/2010 European Communities (Award of Contracts by Utilities Undertakings) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2010 (in particular Regulation 7 thereof).
Source: OJS 2023/S 107-335079 (2023-06-01)
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