We are proposing to construct a new Concrete Sleeper Production facility at Portlaoise Rail and Sleeper Depot, Co Laois. The new facility will automate a number of the production processes, significantly reducing manual labour input and substantially increasing annual production. The Design of the New Plant Layout will be key to achieving our objectives. The successful applicant shall supply a detailed design for the factory building, Automation will be introduced into elements of each of the processes outlined below as a minimum: • Operation of Batching / Mixing Plant including temperature and moisture control • Movement of sleeper moulds and sleepers throughout factory by conveyors or hoists • Mould preparation • Filling moulds with concrete • Emptying Moulds • Curing of sleepers • Installing tensioning system • Application of prestressing force. The key objective will be ensuring optimal flow from start to finish. The selection of the proposed machinery, automated motion management systems and the general architecture and internal layout must be optimally adopted to the manufacturing process to guarantee, standardisation, product quality and operational efficiency in the production of our sleepers.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-07-10.
The procurement was published on 2025-05-27.
Contract notice (2025-05-27) Object Scope of the procurement
Title: 8520 New Sleeper Production Facility
Short description:
“We are proposing to construct a new Concrete Sleeper Production facility at Portlaoise Rail and Sleeper Depot, Co Laois. The new facility will automate a...”
Short description
We are proposing to construct a new Concrete Sleeper Production facility at Portlaoise Rail and Sleeper Depot, Co Laois. The new facility will automate a number of the production processes, significantly reducing manual labour input and substantially increasing annual production. The Design of the New Plant Layout will be key to achieving our objectives. The successful applicant shall supply a detailed design for the factory building, Automation will be introduced into elements of each of the processes outlined below as a minimum: • Operation of Batching / Mixing Plant including temperature and moisture control • Movement of sleeper moulds and sleepers throughout factory by conveyors or hoists • Mould preparation • Filling moulds with concrete • Emptying Moulds • Curing of sleepers • Installing tensioning system • Application of prestressing force. The key objective will be ensuring optimal flow from start to finish. The selection of the proposed machinery, automated motion management systems and the general architecture and internal layout must be optimally adopted to the manufacturing process to guarantee, standardisation, product quality and operational efficiency in the production of our sleepers.
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Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Production management consultancy services📦 Description
Description of the procurement:
“We are proposing to construct a new Concrete Sleeper Production facility at Portlaoise Rail and Sleeper Depot, Co Laois. The new facility will automate a...”
Description of the procurement
We are proposing to construct a new Concrete Sleeper Production facility at Portlaoise Rail and Sleeper Depot, Co Laois. The new facility will automate a number of the production processes, significantly reducing manual labour input and substantially increasing annual production. The Design of the New Plant Layout will be key to achieving our objectives. The successful applicant shall supply a detailed design for the factory building, Automation will be introduced into elements of each of the processes outlined below as a minimum: • Operation of Batching / Mixing Plant including temperature and moisture control • Movement of sleeper moulds and sleepers throughout factory by conveyors or hoists • Mould preparation • Filling moulds with concrete • Emptying Moulds • Curing of sleepers • Installing tensioning system • Application of prestressing force. The key objective will be ensuring optimal flow from start to finish. The selection of the proposed machinery, automated motion management systems and the general architecture and internal layout must be optimally adopted to the manufacturing process to guarantee, standardisation, product quality and operational efficiency in the production of our sleepers.
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Additional products/services: Design consultancy services📦
Additional products/services: Railway engineering services📦
Main site or place of performance:
“Dublin”
Duration: 7 (YEAR)
The time frame below is expressed in number of years.
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Procedure Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition ✅ Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-07-10 12:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
“Stated in the Procurement Doc”
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
“Stated in the Procurement Docs” Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions:
“Stated in the Procurement Docs”
Complementary information Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: 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📞 Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail
National registration number: 119571
Postal address: Inchicore
Postal code: Dublin 8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: catherine.odonoghue@irishrail.ie📧
Phone: 017030000📞
URL: https://www.irishrail.ie🌏 Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
“Stated in the Procurement Docs”
Source: OJS 2025/S 103-347822 (2025-05-27)
Contract notice (2025-06-21) Procedure Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-07-24 12:00:00 📅
Contracting authority Name and addresses
E-mail: tbc@irishrail.ie📧
Complementary information Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
E-mail: tbc@irishrail.ie📧
Changes Other additional information
“Submission Date Extended by 1 Additional Week”
Source: OJS 2025/S 119-409754 (2025-06-21)