Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-02
Buyer: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71322100 | 71324000: Quantity surveying services
Estimated value: 5000000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2019-06-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) wish to set up a single party framework for the provision when required of quantity surveying, management of programmes, risk management, value management and other related services in relation to national roads programmes and public transport projects.
TII is procuring on its own behalf and on behalf of a number of local authorities a single party framework for when needed the provision of commercial services, quantity surveying, programme, risk and value management services. The services that may be required are in 3 broad categories as follows:
Projects-focused services such as: quantities take-off and auditing; preparation, reviewing and benchmarking of construction, acquisition, network operation, routine maintenance and capital intervention cost estimates; drafting project cost management manuals, guidelines and reporting templates; analysing final accounts; updating of the Transport Infrastructure Ireland Method of measurement for roadworks, independent arithmetic checks of tender prices; preparation of cost databases; undertaking or reviewing various value-for money analyses; valuing variation orders; giving advice on cost management policy; ensuring compliance with relevant government cost management and value for policy and guidelines; any other related services.
Programme-management-level services such as: supporting programme/portfolio management offices; reviewing/updating prgramme management processes/guidelines; enabling new programme management capabilities within client organisations including performance metrics; programme/portfolio lifecycle management processes — initiation, justification, mapping, investment appraisal (attractiveness, achievability, affordability, investment strategy), portfolio balancing/prioritisation, managing programmes in flight, stakeholder management, benefits realisation, ex-ante/ex-post reviews and manage feedback loops; consolidating projects into portfolios and portfolios into master programmes using suitable software; forecasting current and future years programme/projects expenditure; capital investment scenarios analysis; extracting data from various databases to spreadsheets for further analysis; ensuring compliance with relevant government policy/guidelines; any other related services.
Risk and value management services such as: supporting programme/project management offices to manage projects and programmes lifecycle risks; developing programmes/projects risk and value management policy, guidelines and methodologies; audit the application of risk management during the various implementation stages of programmes/projects; planning for and facilitating risk and value management workshops and reporting deliberations therein and their outcomes; using the right methodologies to identify programmes/projects risks including planning, design, funding, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance and capital intervention risks; undertaking quantitative and qualitative risk assessment; risk modelling and reporting using appropriate software; risk tracking and reporting; risks scenario analysis; advise on budget contingency allowances; and any other related services.
The successful tenderer will be required to enter into a Framework Agreement with Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the relevant local authorities. Contracts ("Call-off contracts") for individual projects may be entered into. The 4 year value of all call-offs is estimated to be circa 0 — 5 000 000 EUR (exclu VAT). This may vary and there is no guarantee that call-offs of such value will be awarded under the Framework Agreement. Clients may procure similar services in other ways.

Eligibility requirements: See tender documents.

Award value: 5000000