Market Sounding Exercise - Passport Service Systems / Production Project

Department of Foreign Affairs/An Roinn Gnรณthaรญ Eachtracha

Market Sounding Exercise
The Passport Service is planning for a new design and supply of complete passport books (incorporating polycarbonate data page), passport cards and other travel documents. In addition, the Passport Service will be replacing its existing book personalisation machinery and card personalisation machinery. Please see the attached notice for further information.

Deadline

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

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2022-03-04 Contract notice
2022-03-30 Additional information
Contract notice (2022-03-04)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Design consultancy services
Short description:
Market Sounding Exercise The Passport Service is planning for a new design and supply of complete passport books (incorporating polycarbonate data page), passport cards and other travel documents. In addition, the Passport Service will be replacing its existing book personalisation machinery and card personalisation machinery. Please see the attached notice for further information.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Design consultancy services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Passports ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
Awarding authority name: Department of Foreign Affairs/An Roinn Gnรณthaรญ Eachtracha
Postal address: 80 St Stephen's Green
Postal code: Dublin
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.dfa.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: consultant.tenders@dfa.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 014082000 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=208951&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-03-04 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2022-04-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-03-09 ๐Ÿ“…
Start date: 2022-10-01 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 048-124907
OJ-S issue: 48
Additional information
This Market Sounding Exercise is to ascertain market capability in terms of products and services that may meet the needs of the Department as well as the level of interest to provide the requisite services. This exercise is not a pre-qualification exercise or the beginning of a procurement process. Detailed proposals are not required.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Market Sounding Exercise
The Passport Service is planning for a new design and supply of complete passport books (incorporating polycarbonate data page), passport cards and other travel documents. In addition, the Passport Service will be replacing its existing book personalisation machinery and card personalisation machinery. Please see the attached notice for further information.
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Estimated total value: 1 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Short description: Please see the attached notice.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin and Cork

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender opening date: 2022-04-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening time: 12:00
Place: Dublin

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: John Histon
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/246 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=208951&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
Awarding authority name: Procurement Unit - Department of Foreign Affairs
Contact point: Procurement Unit - Department of Foreign Affairs
Internet address: www.dfa.ie ๐ŸŒ

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Please consult your legal advisor.
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Same as: Body responsible for mediation procedures
Source: OJS 2022/S 048-124907 (2022-03-04)
Additional information (2022-03-30)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-03-30 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2022-04-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-04-04 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 066-175367
Refers to notice: 2022/S 048-124907
OJ-S issue: 66
Source: OJS 2022/S 066-175367 (2022-03-30)