25.005 Invitation to Tender – Building Services Engineer (M and E) Design Consultant Services - Energy Pathfinder Programme 2025/2026 – WP 1 Biomass (Louth/Meath)

Louth and Meath Education and Training Board 1384

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), and the Department of Education and Youth (DEY) have agreed to collaborate on the delivery of an Energy Pathfinder Programme for the Education sector and require a Lead Mechanical and Electrical (M and E) Engineering Design Consultant to deliver the Louth and Meath Schools Biomass Project under the Pathfinder 2025/2026 Programme. This bundle, representing a single tender competition, will comprise up to 6 schools located in Counties Louth and Meath. This initiative aims to reduce CO2 emissions in schools by piloting biomass boiler projects, complete with a fuel store, which will be housed in a prefabricated energy cabin and craned into a location adjacent to the existing school boiler house. The Lead Design Consultant must be an M and E engineering specialist with demonstrable experience in Irish school design and delivery of projects of similar scale and complexity. The Consultant will manage the full design process, including but not limited to: Coordination and procurement of all necessary specialist skill providers as outlined in the Suitability Assessment Questionnaire. Provision of all additional services required to complete the project, either in-house or subcontracted, included within the tendered fee. Responsibility for managing and contracting any other design disciplines necessary for project delivery. The successful Design Consultant will be expected to deliver the project successfully through all five stages of the CWMF. The Project Execution Plan sets out the key deliverables throughout each stage of each school biomass project.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-07-18. The procurement was published on 2025-06-17.

Suppliers

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

• Colman Reynolds and Associates

Who?

• Louth and Meath Education and Training Board 1384

What?

Where?

• Aττική › Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών
• Eastern and Midland › Dublin
• Eastern and Midland › Mid-East

Procurement history

Date	Document
2025-06-17	Contract notice
2026-07-03	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2025-06-17)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: 25.005 Invitation to Tender – Building Services Engineer (M and E) Design Consultant Services - Energy Pathfinder Programme 2025/2026 – WP 1 Biomass (Louth/Meath)
Short description:

Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 363 492 EUR 💰
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
Description
Internal identifier: 0
Additional products/services:

Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services 📦

Building services consultancy services 📦

Engineering design services 📦

+ 5 more

Heating engineering services for buildings 📦

Heating-system design services 📦

Mechanical and electrical engineering services 📦

Mechanical engineering services 📦

Miscellaneous engineering services 📦

Aim of strategic procurement: Reduction of environmental impacts

Procuring a Service where the design outcome is targeting decarbonisation heating projects through the delivery of biomass boiler heating solutions in schools.

Approach to reducing environmental impacts: Climate change mitigation
Green Procurement Criteria: Other Green Public Procurement criteria
Town: Louth and Meath
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: Mid-East 🏙️
Duration: 48 months
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-07-18 12:00:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2025-07-18 12:30:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5925739
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 180 days
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Opening date: 2025-07-18 12:30:00 📅
Place: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5925739
Electronic invoicing: Required
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Louth and Meath Education and Training Board 1384
National registration number: 20083458
Postal address: Abbey Road
Postal code: C15 N6 7E
Postal town: Navan
Region: Mid-East 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: vfeeney@lmetb.ie 📧
Phone: 046 9068200 📞
URL: https://www.lmetb.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.lmetb.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=5925739 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5925739 🌏
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
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
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: As per Guidance
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 116-395653 (2025-06-17)

Contract award notice (2026-07-03)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 363 492 EUR 💰
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): 418 800 EUR 💰
Award criteria
Price ✅
Price (weighting): 400
Quality criterion (name): Meat
Quality criterion (weighting): 600

Procedure
Weight type: Weight (points, exact)

Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded ✅
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Contract Number: 454039
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2025-09-16 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 5
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: 418 800 EUR 💰
Tender identifier: 000123188
Identifier of lot or group of lots: LOT-0001
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Colman Reynolds and Associates
National registration number: 445241
Postal code: A63 R680
Postal town: Bray
Region: Mid-East 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: emmet.stafford@cra.ie 📧
Size of the economic operator: Micro, small, or medium

Complementary information
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: N/A
Source: OJS 2026/S 127-462668 (2026-07-03)

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