Development Deal Agreement with Stage Payments

Focus Housing Association clg

Focus Housing Association CLG (the โ€œContracting Authorityโ€) provides the housing function to the Homeless Charity Focus Ireland. Focus Ireland is one of the largest housing and homeless organisations in Ireland providing services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The charity was founded by Sr Stanislaus Kennedy as a result of research into the needs of homeless women in Dublin. Focus Ireland works with people who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes. Their main areas of operation include Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Kilkenny, Sligo, Kildare, Carlow, Tipperary, Wexford, Waterford and Clare. The Contracting Authority now wishes to seek expressions of interest from developers / builders / land or property owners with existing sites / development sites / developments that are suitable for development / completion for social housing. This expression of interest is the first stage in a competitive procedure with negotiation. This stage of the process will consist of an assessment of the suitability of applicants to participate in the process. Those applicants who are deemed suitable will then be invited to participate in the negotiation stage of the process. It is the intention of Focus Housing Association to acquire the freehold interest of completed developments.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-06-30. The procurement was published on 2025-05-15.

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
2025-05-15 Contract notice
Contract notice (2025-05-15)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Development Deal Agreement with Stage Payments
Short description:
Focus Housing Association CLG (the โ€œContracting Authorityโ€) provides the housing function to the Homeless Charity Focus Ireland. Focus Ireland is one of the largest housing and homeless organisations in Ireland providing services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The charity was founded by Sr Stanislaus Kennedy as a result of research into the needs of homeless women in Dublin. Focus Ireland works with people who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes. Their main areas of operation include Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Kilkenny, Sligo, Kildare, Carlow, Tipperary, Wexford, Waterford and Clare. The Contracting Authority now wishes to seek expressions of interest from developers / builders / land or property owners with existing sites / development sites / developments that are suitable for development / completion for social housing. This expression of interest is the first stage in a competitive procedure with negotiation. This stage of the process will consist of an assessment of the suitability of applicants to participate in the process. Those applicants who are deemed suitable will then be invited to participate in the negotiation stage of the process. It is the intention of Focus Housing Association to acquire the freehold interest of completed developments.
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Type of contract: Works
Products/services: Multi-dwelling buildings construction work ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Estimated value excluding VAT: 65 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Description
Internal identifier: 0
Additional products/services: Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Place of performance: Dublin ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
Duration of the qualification system
Indefinite duration โœ…
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 3
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Description
Main site or place of performance: Dublin

Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition โœ…
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-06-30 15:00:00 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Information about negotiation
The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without conducting negotiations โœ…
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 โœ…
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic payment will be used โœ…

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Focus Housing Association clg
National registration number: 20015107
Postal address: 40/41 Grand Parade, Cork City.
Postal code: T12N1WE
Postal town: Cork
Region: Dublin ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
E-mail: liz.carey@focusireland.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: 0214273646 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL: https://www.focusireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.focusireland.ie ๐ŸŒ
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Housing and community amenities
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=5690039 ๐ŸŒ
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5690039 ๐ŸŒ
The criteria will be used to select the candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure โœ…
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
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: Procurement Document
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 095-321511 (2025-05-15)