Establishment of 4 Multi-Party Frameworks for the Provision and Distribution of Milk for the School Milk Scheme across 4 lots for the National Dairy Council

The National Dairy Council

The National Dairy Council proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of Four Multi Party framework agreements for the Provision and Distribution of Milk for the School Milk Scheme across the following 4 Lots: Lot 1 – Provision and Distribution of School Milk Clare, Cavan, Carlow, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth, Longford, Limerick, Laois, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wicklow, Wexford. Lot 2 – Provision and Distribution of School Milk Cork (Min. of 75 percent cover) Lot 3 – Provision and Distribution of School Milk Kerry (Min. of 75 percent cover) Lot 4 – Provision and Distribution of School Milk. Since 1977, EU Member States have access to Community aid through the EU School Milk Scheme (SMS) for providing children in educational establishments with milk and certain milk products. From an overarching EU perspective, the SMS has two core objectives: 1. Increasing EU milk consumption and milk demand to fight the declining trend and stabilising the market price for milk and milk products. 2. Increasing consumption of milk and milk products of children and young people by providing them with healthy dairy products. The full suite of requirements is contained within the tender documents. All responses must be uploaded as a ZIP FILE format.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2024-09-16. The procurement was published on 2024-08-12.

Who?

• The National Dairy Council

What?

Where?

Procurement history

Date	Document
2024-08-12	Contract notice

Contract notice (2024-08-12)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Establishment of 4 Multi-Party Frameworks for the Provision and Distribution of Milk for the School Milk Scheme across 4 lots for the National Dairy Council
Short description:

Type of contract: Supplies
Products/services: Milk 📦
Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots ✅
Tenders may be submitted for maximum number of lots: 4

1️⃣
Internal identifier: 1
Title: Provision and Distribution of School Milk - Clare, Cavan, Carlow, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth, Longford, Limerick, Laois, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wicklow, Wexford.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 2 000 000 EUR 💰
Additional products/services:

Dairy products 📦

Full-cream milk 📦

Pasteurised milk 📦

+ 2 more

Semi-skimmed milk 📦

Skimmed milk 📦

Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: Mid-East 🏙️
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

2️⃣
Internal identifier: 2
Title: Provision and Distribution of School Milk - Cork (Min. of 75 percent cover)
Place of performance: South-East 🏙️
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0002

3️⃣
Internal identifier: 3
Title: Provision and Distribution of School Milk - Kery (Min. of 75 percent cover)
Place of performance: South-West 🏙️
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0003

4️⃣
Internal identifier: 4
Title: Provision and Distribution of School Milk - Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo and Donegal
Place of performance: West 🏙️
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0004
Description
Place of performance: Dublin 🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Across the island of Ireland

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2024-09-16 12:00:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2024-09-16 12:30:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=4117128
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators ✅
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Opening date: 2024-09-16 12:30:00 📅
Place: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=4117128
Electronic invoicing: Required
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Exclusion ground: Purely national exclusion grounds

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: The National Dairy Council
National registration number: Unknown
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: tregan@ndc.ie 📧
Phone: (01) 290 2451 📞
Address of the buyer profile: www.ndc.ie 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Education
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=4117128 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=4117128 🌏
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Additional information

(1) Interested parties must associate their organisation with this competition on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to upload tender responses. To do this you must do the following: Log-in to the eTenders portal; Locate the competition using the Advanced Search by searching under the Contracting Authority or Resource ID. Click on the hyperlink for the competition which will bring you to the CfT Workspace. In the Show CfT Menu for the competition click on the “Expression of Interest in the drop-down menu. Complete the Association with the CfT tab. This will then provide you with a link to Tender under the Show CfT Menu where you can prepare your submission. (2) When finalising your tender submission please upload your final response as a ZIP file as individual documents may lose their titles if uploaded individually. Also ensure that you receive a message under the status header called Submitted, as the percentage tab does not necessarily imply you have successfully submitted your response. (3) There is a maximum upload limit of 250MB per file and 500MB per tender submission. (4) Suppliers should note the following when making their submission suppliers must ensure that they give themselves sufficient time to upload & submit all required documentation before the submission deadline. Suppliers should consider the fact that upload speeds vary and that the new eTenders system operates in a different manner to the previous platform operated by EU-Supply. The submit button will be disable automatically upon the expiration of the response deadline. (5) If you experience difficulty when uploading documents, please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email irish-eproc-helpdesk@eurodym.com or Telephone: +353(0)818 001459 (09:00 – 17:00 hours). (6) Tenders submitted by any other means (including but not limited to email, post, messaging system on etenders or hand delivery) will not be accepted. (7) 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. (8) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie 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 (9) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers. Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities. (10) 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. (11) Where applicable, 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. (12) 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.

Additional information

(1) Interested parties must associate their organisation with this competition on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications and to upload tender responses. To do this you must do the following: Log-in to the eTenders portal; Locate the competition using the Advanced Search by searching under the Contracting Authority or Resource ID. Click on the hyperlink for the competition which will bring you to the CfT Workspace. In the Show CfT Menu for the competition click on the “Expression of Interest in the drop-down menu. Complete the Association with the CfT tab. This will then provide you with a link to Tender under the Show CfT Menu where you can prepare your submission.
(2) When finalising your tender submission please upload your final response as a ZIP file as individual documents may lose their titles if uploaded individually. Also ensure that you receive a message under the status header called Submitted, as the percentage tab does not necessarily imply you have successfully submitted your response.
(3) There is a maximum upload limit of 250MB per file and 500MB per tender submission.
(4) Suppliers should note the following when making their submission suppliers must ensure that they give themselves sufficient time to upload & submit all required documentation before the submission deadline. Suppliers should consider the fact that upload speeds vary and that the new eTenders system operates in a different manner to the previous platform operated by EU-Supply. The submit button will be disable automatically upon the expiration of the response deadline.
(5) If you experience difficulty when uploading documents, please contact the eTenders Support Desk for technical assistance. Email irish-eproc-helpdesk@eurodym.com or Telephone: +353(0)818 001459 (09:00 – 17:00 hours).
(6) Tenders submitted by any other means (including but not limited to email, post, messaging system on etenders or hand delivery) will not be accepted.
(7) 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.
(8) All queries regarding this tender requirement or process must be submitted through the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal www.etenders.gov.ie 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
(9) The contracting authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers. Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
(10) 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.
(11) Where applicable, 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.
(12) 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.

Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2024/S 158-490942 (2024-08-12)

New procurements in related categories 🆕

Food, beverages, tobacco and related products (>20 new procurements)

Dairy products (2)

Milk and cream

Milk