Single-Operator Framework Agreement for Provision of Support Services to assist in the roll out of Dublin City Council’s Community Wealth Building Implementation Plan

Dublin City Council

Dublin City Council wishes to introduce the Community Wealth Building (CWB) concept across all services and operations. Dublin City Council CWB working group, through the participation of interactive workshops developed an Implementation Plan to help envisage the roll out of CWB across all services. Dublin City Council now seek to procure a support service provider to roll out the Implementation Plan , which charts clear and specific actions to be taken to introduce CWB to Dublin City Council operations. The deliverable output will be the successful inclusion of actions identified in the Implementation Plan to Dublin City Council operations. The timeframe of the initial contract (delivery plan) is 18 months, consideration will then be given to forming an external network of anchor institutions to spread the use of CWB throughout Dublin.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-08-03. The procurement was published on 2022-07-01.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

• Centre for Local Economic Strategies

Who?

• Dublin City Council

What?

Where?

• Eastern and Midland › Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2022-07-01	Contract notice
2023-01-23	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2022-07-01)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Business and management consultancy and related services
Reference number: 217682
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: Business and management consultancy and related services 📦
Additional CPV: Administrative services for business operations 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Dublin 🏙️

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Regional or local authority
Awarding authority name: Dublin City Council
Postal address: Civic Offices, Wood Quay
Postal code: Dublin
Postal town: Dublin 8
Contact
Internet address: http://www.dublincity.ie 🌏
E-mail: lisa.flanagan@dublincity.ie 📧
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=217922&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=217922&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-07-01 📅
Submission deadline: 2022-08-03 📅
Publication date: 2022-07-06 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 128-365071
OJ-S issue: 128
Additional information

1. Dublin City Council is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2014. If you consider that any of the information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for the sensitivity specified. In such cases, the relevant material, will in response to the FOI request; be examined in the light of the exemptions provided for in the Act. 2. It will be a condition for the award of any contract by Dublin City Council that the successful Tenderer and all sub-contractors (if applicable) produce a valid Tax Clearance Certificate from the Revenue Commissioners in compliance with Circular (43) 2006 (or as amended) and that the certificate will be maintained for the duration of the contract and will be on a 12 month basis. In the case of a non-resident Tenderer, a statement of suitability from the Revenue Commissioners will be required. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Please note also that 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. Dublin City Council will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties. 6. All queries regarding this tender must be directed to the messaging facility on www.etenders.gov.ie. RFT ID: 217682. Queries must be in question format. Responses will be circulated to those candidates/tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on the Irish Government procurement opportunities portal www.etenders.gov.ie. The details of the party making the query will not be disclosed when circulating the response. All queries must be submitted by 5pm on Friday, 22nd July 2022 to enable issue of responses to all interested parties. 7. Please note that where documents are made available in both PDF and Word format, in the event that there is any discrepancy between the documents, the PDF version will take precedence. 8. For further information please refer to 'Additional Information' document available to download on www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID 217682.

Additional information

1. Dublin City Council is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2014. If you consider that any of the information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for the sensitivity specified. In such cases, the relevant material, will in response to the FOI request; be examined in the light of the exemptions provided for in the Act.

2. It will be a condition for the award of any contract by Dublin City Council that the successful Tenderer and all sub-contractors (if applicable) produce a valid Tax Clearance Certificate from the Revenue Commissioners in compliance with Circular (43) 2006 (or as amended) and that the certificate will be maintained for the duration of the contract and will be on a 12 month basis. In the case of a non-resident Tenderer, a statement of suitability from the Revenue Commissioners will be required.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Please note also that 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. Dublin City Council will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.

6. All queries regarding this tender must be directed to the messaging facility on www.etenders.gov.ie. RFT ID: 217682. Queries must be in question format. Responses will be circulated to those candidates/tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on the Irish Government procurement opportunities portal www.etenders.gov.ie. The details of the party making the query will not be disclosed when circulating the response. All queries must be submitted by 5pm on Friday, 22nd July 2022 to enable issue of responses to all interested parties.

7. Please note that where documents are made available in both PDF and Word format, in the event that there is any discrepancy between the documents, the PDF version will take precedence.

8. For further information please refer to 'Additional Information' document available to download on www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID 217682.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 300 000 EUR 💰
Short description:

Dublin City Council wishes to introduce the Community Wealth Building (CWB) concept across all services and operations. Community Wealth Building initiatives were adopted by Dublin City Council at the October 2021 City Council meeting, following on from presentations made to the Finance Strategic Policy Committee at the September meeting. Subsequently a cross departmental CWB Working Group was established to examine and agree measures to incorporate CWB in service delivery and operations. The CWB working group through the participation of interactive workshops developed an Implementation Plan to help envisage the roll out of CWB across all services. The Implementation Plan was presented and adopted at the May 2022 Finance Strategic Policy Committee meeting. Dublin City Council now seek to procure a support service provider to roll out the Implementation Plan , which charts clear and specific actions to be taken to introduce CWB to Dublin City Council operations. The deliverable output will be the successful inclusion of actions identified in the Implementation Plan to Dublin City Council operations. The timeframe of the initial contract (delivery plan) is 18 months, consideration will then be given to forming an external network of anchor institutions to spread the use of CWB throughout Dublin.

Please see tender documents on www.etenders.gov.ie for further details.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 300 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 48 months
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: Please refer to tender documents available on www.etenders.gov.ie

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 17:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Irish 🗣️
Tender validity period: 12 months
Tender opening date: 2022-08-03 📅
Tender opening time: 17:00
Place: Please note that the date and time set out above is subject to change at the discretion of Dublin City Council.

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Internet address: www.dublincity.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/267 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=217922&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Additional information

2. It will be a condition for the award of any contract by Dublin City Council that the successful Tenderer and all sub-contractors (if applicable) produce a valid Tax Clearance Certificate from the Revenue Commissioners in compliance with Circular (43) 2006 (or as amended) and that the certificate will be maintained for the duration of the contract and will be on a 12 month basis. In the case of a non-resident Tenderer, a statement of suitability from the Revenue Commissioners will be required.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Please note also that 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. Dublin City Council will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.

6. All queries regarding this tender must be directed to the messaging facility on www.etenders.gov.ie. RFT ID: 217682. Queries must be in question format. Responses will be circulated to those candidates/tenderers that have registered an interest in this notice on the Irish Government procurement opportunities portal www.etenders.gov.ie. The details of the party making the query will not be disclosed when circulating the response. All queries must be submitted by 5pm on Friday, 22nd July 2022 to enable issue of responses to all interested parties.

7. Please note that where documents are made available in both PDF and Word format, in the event that there is any discrepancy between the documents, the PDF version will take precedence.

8. For further information please refer to 'Additional Information' document available to download on www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID 217682.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Chief Registrar, High Court, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Please consult your solicitor.
Source: OJS 2022/S 128-365071 (2022-07-01)

Contract award notice (2023-01-23)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Total value of the procurement: 300 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Contact
E-mail: mary.curran@dublincity.ie 📧

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2023-01-23 📅
Publication date: 2023-01-27 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2023/S 020-053240
Refers to notice: 2022/S 128-365071
OJ-S issue: 20

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Approach and Methodology
Quality criterion (weighting): 25
Quality criterion (name): Relevant Expertise of Resources
Contract Management
Quality criterion (weighting): 10
Cost criterion (name): Ultimate Cost
Cost criterion (weighting): 40

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2022-10-13 📅
Name: Centre for Local Economic Strategies
National registration number: 451 4033 86
Postal address: 52 Oak Street
Postal town: Manchester
Postal code: M4 5JA
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
E-mail: stuartmacdonald@cles.org.uk 📧
Country: Greater Manchester 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.cles.org.uk 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 300 000 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Source: OJS 2023/S 020-053240 (2023-01-23)

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