Automation Design Engineer for the Cash Centre Project

Central Bank of Ireland

The Central Bank of Ireland has decided to undertake a project to develop and construct a new cash centre in the greater Dublin area. Once the New Cash Centre is constructed and fully operational, the existing national Irish cash centre on a site in Sandyford, Dublin 18 will be decommissioned. The construction of the New Cash Centre and the decommissioning of the Sandyford Cash Centre are together referred to as the Project. The Central Bank of Ireland intends to procure an Automation Design Engineer to advise on all automation related aspects of the Cash Centre Project, to include the specification, design, management of delivery and cost management of integrated automated solution. This role will include reviewing, revalidating and acceptance of an existing Stage 1 automation design with the Central Bank’s automation team, followed by delivery of Stages 2-5 of the Capital Works Management Framework for the automation design. The Competition is being conducted using the Office of Government Procurement Capital Works Management Framework Documents and Applicants will be required to respond to this Competition by completing the Capital Works Suitability Assessment Questionnaire (the “SAQ”). The full set of procurement documents for this stage of the competition are attached to the eTenders notice for this contract.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-03-10. The procurement was published on 2025-02-05.

Who?

• Central Bank of Ireland

What?

Where?

• Aττική › Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών
• Eastern and Midland › Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2025-02-05	Contract notice

Contract notice (2025-02-05)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Automation Design Engineer for the Cash Centre Project
Reference number: 2025P001
Short description:

Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Office automation software development services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 500 000 EUR 💰
Description
Internal identifier: 2025P001
Description of the procurement:

The Central Bank of Ireland has decided to undertake a project to develop and construct a new cash centre in the greater Dublin area. Once the New Cash Centre is constructed and fully operational, the existing national Irish cash centre on a site in Sandyford, Dublin 18 will be decommissioned. The construction of the New Cash Centre and the decommissioning of the Sandyford Cash Centre are together referred to as the Project. The Central Bank of Ireland intends to procure an Automation Design Engineer to advise on all automation related aspects of the Cash Centre Project, to include the specification, design, management of delivery and cost management of integrated automated solution. This role will include reviewing, revalidating and acceptance of an existing Stage 1 automation design with the Central Bank’s automation team, followed by delivery of Stages 2-5 of the Capital Works Management Framework for the automation design. The full set of procurement documents for this stage of the competition are attached to the eTenders notice for this contract.

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Approach to reducing environmental impacts: Other
Green Procurement Criteria: Other Green Public Procurement criteria
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: Dublin 🏙️
Duration: 9 years
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 5
Maximum number: 5
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Restricted procedure ✅
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-03-10 17:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated ✅
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2025-02-24 17:00:00 📅

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Central Bank of Ireland
National registration number: 6342077W
Postal address: New Wapping Street, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Postal code: D01 F7X3
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: tenders2@centralbank.ie 📧
Phone: +353 (0) 1 2246000 📞
Fax: +353 (0) 1 2245550 📠
URL: http://www.centralbank.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.centralbank.ie 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=4957417 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=4957417 🌏
There is a maximum number of candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure ✅
The criteria will be used to select the candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure ✅
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Additional information

The figure in the estimated value section represents the Central Bank’s best estimate of the anticipated total value, but it is not possible to be definitive in this regard by virtue of nature of the relevant services. These figures represent an estimate only and do not amount to a guarantee that any purchases will be made pursuant to the Contract. The total value may be significantly lower, or indeed significantly higher than the figures in the estimated value section. In any event, the Central Bank does not expect the figure to exceed €7m aside from justification for change under the Article 72 of the Regulations

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:

30 days of the complainant being aware (or ought to have been aware) of the grounds giving rise to the complaint

Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 026-082395 (2025-02-05)

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