Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-03-19
Buyer: Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 45211360 | 71000000 | 71200000 | 71210000 | 71220000
Estimated value: 7000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2021-04-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Establishment of a number of multi‐party framework agreements for architect led integrated design team services or individual disciplines in seven lots as required using the competitive procedure with negotiation.
Lot 1: Architectural design services including specialist skills of fire engineering design services, landscape architectural design services, sports pitch design, planning consultancy services, environmental consultancy services, archaeological services and conservation architectural design services, acoustic consultancy services. description of service:
(a) the architect will be the design team leader (unless noted otherwise at mini-competition stage or cascade stage);
(b) the architect will be required to provide all of the professional architectural services, including specialist skills of fire engineering design services, landscape architectural design services, sports pitch design, planning consultancy services, environmental consultancy services, archaeological services and conservation architectural design services, acoustic consultancy services, traffic, transportation, bridge consultancy as necessary to comply with the requirements of each design brief including all post contract supervision as necessary to ensure the satisfactory completion of the project(s);
(i) the preparation, submission and securing, where practicable, of all statutory approvals as may be required including:
The Institute will pay all local authority fees and contributions associated with obtaining required statutory approvals, and where asking the consultant to do so will reimburse the consultant accordingly.
(ii) unless otherwise nominated the architect will provide all of the services associated with the assigned certifier under the building control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and will provide the design certificate(s) associated with same;
(iv) preparation, assessment and recommendation of works contractors and tenders in conjunction with the other members of the design team and client.
The procedure being utilised in this competition is the ‘Competitive Procedure with Negotiation’. This procedure has been chosen as the optimum procedure to enable the assessment of innovative solutions (by analogy with the rules contained in Directive 2014/24/EU – Article 26). The procedure involves the following four stages;
1) A suitability assessment questionnaire used to assess the financial and technical competence for parties suitable for request for tender stage. There will be a shortlist of maximum of 5 (five) operators to be invited to the tender stage, or the maximum number of applications received if this number is not achieved;
2) Request for Tender (‘RFT’) stage and initial evaluation. After the tender stage 3 (three) operators will be awarded membership to the framework, if available from the maximum number received from the limits set in Stage 1 above;
3) Negotiation stage as may be necessary and appropriate. However, the contracting authority reserves the possibility to award the framework on the basis of initial tenders without negotiation. Should the contracting authority enter into formal negotiations, shortlisted tenderers will be invited to submit a best and final offer;
4) Award of framework/contract phase where a decision is taken to award a framework or not as the case may be, followed by signing of a service contract.
Establishment of a number of multi‐party framework agreements for architect led integrated design team services or individual disciplines in seven lots as required to assist in the delivery of refurbishment, renovation, upgrades works, new build, re-adaptive and master planning works, and capital business case development — using the competitive procedure with negotiation.
Quantity surveying services including specialist skills of mechanical and electrical quantity surveying services (MEQS). Description of service:


Award value: 7000000