Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-16
Buyer: Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 45311000 | 45315100 | 50532000 | 51100000 | 51110000
Submission deadline: 2020-12-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting entity intends to procure, GWM12310 Moneypoint electrical maintenance resources contract for services qualified electricians and electrical charge hands to support the electrical maintenance requirements of the station at Moneypoint for the next 4 years with an option for further 4 years. The requirement is for contractor resources on site to ensure that the units continue to run efficiently and effectively for the duration of the contract. In order to mitigate the resource shortfall is to set a framework agreement.
This contract will have renewal option of 4 years in one or more year increments at ESB's discretion.
Applicants will be assessed on the quality of their responses to the criteria and rules outlined in the qualification questionnaire and at least the top scoring 4 firms will be invited to tender, subject to that number qualifying.
This contract will have renewal option of 4 years in one or more year increments at ESB's discretion.
As stated in procurement qualification questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 179803.
1) It is our intention to use the Irish Government Procurement portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) for this competition. Access to this Portal is free of charge. Interested parties must formally register their expression of interest for this competition on eTenders before they can gain access to the PQQ documentation. All information relating to and including the pre-qualification documents, any clarifications and changes will be issued/published via this portal. The contracting entity will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
3) The contracting entity will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.
6) If for any reason it is not possible to admit to the framework agreement/contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, or having awarded a contract under the framework agreement the contracting entity reserves the right to invite the next highest scoring tenderer to join the framework agreement/contract and/or deliver the contract as appropriate to the circumstances pertaining to the framework/contract.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting entity may elect to terminate this procurement process, the framework agreement or any contract awarded under the framework agreement at any time.
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words ‘or equivalent’ will always be appended.
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the contracting entity is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
10) At Section II.2.9) we have indicated that 4 [to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis] will be invited to tender, please note that the contracting entity reserves the right to invite at least 4 [to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis] subject to that number qualifying.

Eligibility requirements: As stated in procurement qualification questionnaire (PQQ) available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 179803.