Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-12-16
Buyer: Wicklow County Council
Country: IE
Region: IE052
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated with prior call for competition
CPV classification: 55300000 | 71421000 | 75241000 | 77313000 | 79710000: Security services
Estimated value: 2500000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2026-01-22

Technical requirements: The Contracting Authority is employing the competitive procedure with negotiation for this procurement given the complexity and risk associated with the procurement in accordance with Art. 26 of Directive 2014/24/EU.
Please note that this procedure is accelerated, and time limits are reduced.
The procedure involves a number of stages: 

•	Pre-Qualification Phase (this Phase)
The Pre-Qualification Phase (this phase) will be used to short-list the number of potential Candidates, depending on the quality of the responses received in response to this questionnaire.  It is anticipated that 5 firms will be invited to tender.  

•	Tender Stage
Those invited to tender, will be issued with a minimum based specification, award criteria and pricing documents and invited to submit tenders. 
The Contracting Authority will evaluate those tenders against the award criteria and reserves the right to:
(a)	Move straight to a contract award decision, without negotiation
(b)	To apply the successive reduction rule to reduce the number of firms invited to the negotiation phase – the choice of firms may be based on scenarios where firms have failed to qualify under one or more of the award criteria and/or situations where there is a clear score differential following evaluation of the initial tenders; or
(c)	To invite all firms to negotiation meetings.

•	The Negotiation Stage
Where an invitation to attend a negotiation meeting is issued, it should be noted that all aspects of the tender submitted may be discussed, including costs.   

Those tenderers will subsequently be accorded an opportunity to submit a Best and Final Offer (BAFO), which will be assessed against the award criteria. 
It should be emphasised that the Contracting Authority reserves the right to establish the framework directly following receipt of initial tenders without recourse to negotiations with individual tenderers.
It should also be noted that the Contracting Authority reserves the right to employ a negotiation stage for the award of any contract under the framework agreement.
This framework agreement will be established on foot of this tender competition for the provision of Site Management Services at Abbey Park on behalf of Wicklow County Council, by a social enterprise. The Abbey Park project involved the provision of a new high quality open space, public garden/tourism attraction in the historic setting of Abbey Park, Wicklow Town, Co. Wicklow. The project includes the redevelopment of the old Coach House into a café/exhibition space, provision of an outdoor performance area, public toilets and suitable public lighting, and a high quality and attractive planting and landscaping scheme. The aim of the project is to enhance this key open space in order to maximise its function as a public amenity, a tourism attraction and heritage asset. Full list of requirements are contained within the procurement documents.