8520 New Sleeper Production Facility

Iarnrod Eireann-Irish Rail

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: โ€ข Operation of Batching / Mixing Plant including temperature and moisture control โ€ข Movement of sleeper moulds and sleepers throughout factory by conveyors or hoists โ€ข Mould preparation โ€ข Filling moulds with concrete โ€ข Emptying Moulds โ€ข Curing of sleepers โ€ข Installing tensioning system โ€ข 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.

Who? What? Where?
  • โ€ข Aฯ„ฯ„ฮนฮบฮฎ โ€บ ฮ’ฯŒฯฮตฮนฮฟฯ‚ ฮคฮฟฮผฮญฮฑฯ‚ ฮ‘ฮธฮทฮฝฯŽฮฝ
  • โ€ข Eastern and Midland โ€บ Dublin
Procurement history
Date Document
2025-05-27 Contract notice
2025-06-21 Contract notice
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 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: โ€ข Operation of Batching / Mixing Plant including temperature and moisture control โ€ข Movement of sleeper moulds and sleepers throughout factory by conveyors or hoists โ€ข Mould preparation โ€ข Filling moulds with concrete โ€ข Emptying Moulds โ€ข Curing of sleepers โ€ข Installing tensioning system โ€ข 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 ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
Description
Internal identifier: 0
Additional products/services: Main site or place of performance: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Duration: 7 years
Maximum renewals: 1
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition โœ…
Legal basis: Directive 2014/25/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-07-10 12:00:00 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
A certain legal form must be taken by a group of tenderers that is awarded a contract โœ…
The contract has performance execution conditions โœ…

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

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Iarnrรณd Eireann-Irish Rail
National registration number: 119571
Postal address: Inchicore
Postal code: Dublin 8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Contact point: Catherine O Donoghue
E-mail: catherine.odonoghue@irishrail.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: 017030000 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL: https://www.irishrail.ie ๐ŸŒ
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.irishrail.ie ๐ŸŒ
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Railway services
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=5778818 ๐ŸŒ
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5778818 ๐ŸŒ
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 ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 1 8886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Same as: Name and addresses
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 ๐Ÿ“…

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
E-mail: tbc@irishrail.ie ๐Ÿ“ง

Complementary information
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
: tbc@irishrail.ie ๐Ÿ“ง

Changes
Other additional information
Submission Date Extended by 1 Additional Week
Main reason for change: Information updated
Information about modifications
Version of the previous notice to be changed: 2d69b082-2709-4b34-b8f3-9f893d7c55fb-01
Source: OJS 2025/S 119-409754 (2025-06-21)