Public procurement notice: Qualification System With Call For Competition
Published: 2022-07-27
Buyer: Achilles Procurement Services Ltd (Buyer)
Country: IE
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 03000000 | 09000000 | 14000000 | 15000000 | 16000000
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This notice is to announce the membership of Supply-Line by Source Energie Ireland, for the development of five windfarms offshore Ireland. Development solutions may relate to Solar, Wind and Hydrogen.Supply-Line is a qualification system operated by Achilles Procurement Services Ltd and used by a number of contracting entities in Ireland as a source for tenderer selection for contracts or frameworks valued above the EU thresholds - Euro 431000 for supplies and services; Euro 1 million for social and other specific services; Euro 5382000 for works contracts and works and services concessions. From time to time it is also used as a source for tenderer selection for contracts valued below the EU thresholds. At their discretion, the contracting entities may publish additional calls for competition for any or all of the procurement categories listed in the briefing document available from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT 218978. They may apply additional rules and criteria in relation to specific procurements, including site visits. They may opt, where deemed necessary, not to use Supply-Line and to publish a separate call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union, to publish a separate notice in the national press or on www.etenders.gov.ie. Please note that separate notices are being published relating to general supplies, services, works and engineering related services.
Registration on Supply-Line constitutes the basis for tender list preparation in the supply categories identified in the Supply-Line coding. Registration may be achieved in the following way: Joining the system under the appropriate level and using the appropriate codes. Economic operators registering on Supply-Line will be subject to an annual contribution payable in advance. Completion of the Supply-Line qualification questionnaire online via www.achilles.com including a formal declaration of the applicants bona fides. Suppliers should note that consideration for tender lists may be subject to the subscribers issuing second-stage qualification questions. To this end, suppliers are reminded to carefully monitor email alerts from both Supply-Line and/or the contracting entities.
Source Energie Ireland and the contracting entities detailed in Section VI.3 primarily uses Supply-Line level Silver Plus, therefore suppliers are required to register at this level in order to be considered for contracts above the EU thresholds which may be awarded by the entities.
The Contracting Entity reserves the right to use auctions, details of which would be made available at tender stage.
Applicants should note that Source Energie will employ the negotiated procedure for the award of any procurement arrangements under the qualification system.  These arrangements may include the award of contracts, contracts with options or framework agreements (single or multi-party).   On occasions where the nature of the procurement is complex or seeks to drive innovation or manage risk, Source Energie may use the competitive dialogue process to explore suitable/viable solutions as part of the procurement process.   For both the negotiated procedure and the competitive dialogue procedure, Source Energie reserves the right to apply the successive reduction process, to reduce the numbers of tenderers/participants invited to subsequent phases of the process.  In relation to the negotiated procedure, Source Energie reserves the right to award contracts directly on foot of original tenders without any negotiation.  Source Energie also reserves the right to negotiate on some or all aspects of a tender submission (cost and / or qualitative aspects).
Supply-Line offers financial savings for both the contracting entities and suppliers whilst ensuring that applications for market entry continue to be dealt with fairly and objectively by the contracting entities, thus minimising the workload for both groups. The list of users currently using the system are:
• SSE, its subsidiaries and affiliates — www.sse.com (for contracts delivered on the island of Ireland). It should be noted that for certain high-risk contracts SSE require vendors to undergo a Verify Audit process prior to being considered for contract award. Please contact SSE or Achilles for more information on these audit protocols.