Visitor Experience Development and Interpretation Services at Strokestown Park and the National Famine Museum

The Irish Heritage Trust

Strokestown Park is an exceptional heritage property cherished by the public. The surrounding one hundred acres of great natural heritage is currently underdeveloped but offers huge potential to link nature and biodiversity with its built cultural heritage in imaginative and accessible ways. Our mission is to widely share Strokestown Park’s natural heritage, biodiversity and its parkland, including its woodlands, walled gardens and meadows and in so doing facilitating our next stage of development, which is to raise aspirations for our natural heritage and biodiversity by developing new and engaging ways to access and explore this natural terrain. This will be achieved by developing external learning Zones, building a holistic Woodland Pavillion and creating a natural heritage rich woodland eco-path. In addition, we will seek to restore the original connection between the town of Strokestown and the Park. By opening up the vista to Strokestown Park we will enhance and deepen the connection between park and town and further integrate the local community with the parklands. By balancing access in this way, to both our built cultural heritage and our natural heritage, we will ensure all areas of Strokestown Park are inviting, captivating and accessible to the widest possible range of audiences; ensuring more innovative visitor experiences, attracting greater numbers of visitors coming to the locality and generating significant, and sustained, economic impacts on the local and regional economy. Strokestown Park's natural heritage is dynamic - it is alive. By developing and sharing this with the public we will not only attract a broad range of new and diverse audiences, we will also have a positive and demonstrably long-term economic impact on the region.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-05-20. The procurement was published on 2025-04-24.

Who?

• The Irish Heritage Trust

What?

Where?

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

Procurement history

Date	Document
2025-04-24	Contract notice

Contract notice (2025-04-24)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Visitor Experience Development and Interpretation Services at Strokestown Park and the National Famine Museum
Short description:

Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 750 000 EUR 💰
Additional nature of the contract: Works
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere
Description
Internal identifier: Strokestown park
Additional products/services:

Administrative services related to tourism affairs 📦

Museum services 📦

Museum-exhibition services 📦

Approach to reducing environmental impacts: Pollution prevention and control
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: Dublin 🏙️
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: 2025-05-20 13:00:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2025-05-22 13:30:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5518206
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: 2025-05-22 13:30:00 📅
Place: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5518206
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2025-05-06 06:05:25 📅

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Selection criterion: Average yearly turnover
List and brief description of rules and criteria: Price

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: The Irish Heritage Trust
National registration number: 16848
Department: 16848
Postal address: 11 Parnell Sq
Postal code: D01 ND60
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: j.weir@irishheritagetrust.ie 📧
Phone: 353 (0)1 5392963 📞
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Social protection
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=5518206 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5518206 🌏
EU funds programme: Just Transition Fund (2021/2027)
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: 16848
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: 7 Days
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 081-269757 (2025-04-24)

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