Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-02
Buyer: Dublin Port Company
Country: IE
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 45111250 | 45120000 | 45122000 | 71332000 | 71351210
Estimated value: 2000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2018-05-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: CEF

Technical requirements: DPC proposes to establish a framework of ground investigations contractors, to facilitate the engagement of a competitive process for the award of call off contracts between 2018 and 2024. The scope of the works envisaged under this ground investigation’s framework are as follows:
The framework agreement will be for 6 years, with the option to extend for 2 years, subject to a maximum of 8 years subject to satisfactory performance, business needs and budgetary constraints.
As per the pre qualification questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID nº: 133233.
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. DPC will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via 3
2) The closing date for receipt of queries concerning this stage of the competition is 11.5.2018 at 12:00 (noon Irish-time). All queries should be sent through the e-Tenders messaging facility.
3) DPC will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.
4) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, DPC reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer(s) to join the framework agreement as appropriate.
This shall be without prejudice to the right of DPC to cancel this competitive process and /or initiate a new contract award procedure at its sole discretion.
5) At its absolute discretion, DPC may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time.
6) DPC reserves the right to successively reduce the number of operators during this negotiated procedure. DPC may gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated.
7) It is anticipated that 6 applicants will be invited to tender subject to the receipt of suitable PQQs.
8) This notice is being published on a voluntary basis in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) as the value of the contract falls below the works threshold value defined by the EU public procurement directives. Therefore, none of the rules of the directive apply to the award procedure for this project and that includes those relating to timescales, selection and award criteria and notifications to candidates and tenderers and all the other rules.

Eligibility requirements: As per the pre qualification questionnaire available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID nº: 133233.

Award value: 2000000