Independent Garment/Textile Consultancy Services to Assist the Defence Forces and Civil Defence’s Procurement Offices

Irish Defence Forces

In summary, the Services comprise independent garment/textile consultancy services to assist the Defence Forces and Civil Defence’s procurement offices in overseeing the different stages of procuring clothing products from design, through manufacture, to the final acceptance and examination of the finished articles.
The successful tenderer(s) will be awarded a separate services contract by the Defence Forces and Civil Defence respectively.
Both, The Ordnance Clothing and Equipment Office and The Civil Defence Procurement Section currently have no organic garment/clothing technical expert and require the services of an independent consultancy service to provide technical guidance for future clothing tenders to include:
• Operational Uniforms
• Ceremonial Uniforms
• Sportswear
• Motor Cycle Clothing and PPE
• Ceremonial Embroidery
• Operational and Ceremonial Footwear
• Bespoke Band Uniform
• Bespoke Presidential Escort of Honour Uniform

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-06-04. The procurement was published on 2022-05-03.

Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
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Procurement history
Date Document
2022-05-03 Contract notice
2022-05-24 Additional information
2022-08-25 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2022-05-03)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Irish Defence Forces
National registration number: N/a
Postal address: McKee Barracks
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: D07 A065
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact person: Cathal Daly
Phone: +353 18046306 📞
E-mail: cathal.daly@defenceforces.ie 📧
Region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
URL: https://military.ie/en/#1 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1144 🌏

Contracting authority (additional)
Name: Civil Defence
Postal town: Roscrea
Contact person: Geraldine Mooney

Contracting authority
E-mail: geraldine.mooney@defence.ie 📧
URL: www.civildefence.ie 🌏
Information about joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=212813&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Participation URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=212813&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Independent Garment/Textile Consultancy Services to Assist the Defence Forces and Civil Defence’s Procurement Offices DORD-2022-001”
Products/services: Design consultancy services 📦
Short description:
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Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 1 200 000 💰

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Additional products/services: Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories 📦
Additional products/services: Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories 📦
Additional products/services: Occupational clothing 📦
Additional products/services: Industrial clothing 📦
Additional products/services: Special workwear 📦
Additional products/services: Flying clothing 📦
Additional products/services: Weatherproof clothing 📦
Additional products/services: Waterproof clothing 📦
Additional products/services: Clothing made of coated or impregnated textile fabrics 📦
Additional products/services: Garments 📦
Additional products/services: Special clothing and accessories 📦
Additional products/services: Special clothing 📦
Additional products/services: Procurement consultancy services 📦
Additional products/services: Specialty design services 📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Main site or place of performance: McKee Barracks, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7
Description of the procurement:
“In summary, the Services comprise independent garment/textile consultancy services to assist the Defence Forces and Civil Defence’s procurement offices in...”    Show more
Award criteria
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 1 200 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 36
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal
Description
Description of renewals: Two (2) 12 months extension options.

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2021/S 163-428964
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-06-04 12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender must be valid until: 2022-08-04 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2022-06-04 12:00 📅

Complementary information
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
Review body
Name: Irish Defence Forces
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2022/S 089-242476 (2022-05-03)
Additional information (2022-05-24)

Complementary information
Original notice reference
Notice number in the OJ S: 2022/S 089-242476

Changes
Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number: IV.2.2)
Place of text to be modified: Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Old value
Date: 2022-06-04 📅
Time: 12:00
New value
Date: 2022-06-14 📅
Time: 12:00
Other additional information
Tender deadline extended to 14 June 2022.
Source: OJS 2022/S 102-286426 (2022-05-24)
Contract award notice (2022-08-25)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): EUR 1 120 000 💰
Award criteria
Cost criterion (name): Contract #Management
Cost criterion (weighting): 200
Cost criterion (name): Proposed Team
Cost criterion (weighting): 250
Cost criterion (name): Service Delivery
Cost criterion (name): Gpp
Cost criterion (weighting): 50
Cost criterion (name): Cost

Procedure
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2022/S 089-242476
Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice

Award of contract

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Contract Number: 1
Title:
“Independent Garment/Textile Consultancy Services to Assist the Defence Forces and Civil Defence’s Procurement Offices”
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2022-08-23 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 7
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 5
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 3
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 7
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Workwear Solutions International Ltd
National registration number: 334 7804 92
Postal address: Bristol & Bath Science Park, Dirac Crescent
Postal town: Bristol
Postal code: South Gloucestershir
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Phone: +44 7551979891 📞
E-mail: natalie@wsiltd.co.uk 📧
Region: United Kingdom 🏙️
The contractor is an SME
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 1 120 000 💰
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 112 000 💰
Source: OJS 2022/S 166-472079 (2022-08-25)