Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2023-08-09
Buyer: Monaghan County Council
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71300000 | 71310000 | 71311000: Civil engineering consultancy services | 71311210 | 71311220

Technical requirements: Monaghan County Council requires multi-disciplinary engineering and other specialised consultancy services in accordance with the scheduled services specified under the “Tender and Schedule” for the delivery of Phases 0/1, 2, 3, 4 of the current edition of the TII PMG (PE-PMG-02041) and Phases 1-4 of the National Roads Authority “Project Management Guidelines 2010” for the N2 Ardee to Castleblayney and N2 Clontibret to Border Road Schemes.
The project involves the separate, independent but coordinated design of the 2 specific schemes for the N2 under a single Contract:
It will be a requirement that key members of the Consultants team shall be based in Monaghan Town. A full description of the services required by the Client is provided in Schedule B of the Tender and Schedule for the Conditions of Engagement for Consultancy Services (Technical).
Monaghan County Council requires multi-disciplinary engineering and other specialised consultancy services in accordance with the scheduled services specified under the “Tender and Schedule” for the delivery of Phases 0/1, 2, 3, 4 of the current edition of the TII PMG (PE-PMG-02041) and Phases 1-4 of the National Roads Authority “Project Management Guidelines 2010” for the N2 Ardee to Castleblayney and N2 Clontibret to Border Road Schemes.
During the course of the contract, various additional services have become necessary. These have included: services necessary to comply with changes to design standards / guidelines, including in relation to managing geotechnical risk, changes to Value of Time parameters; additional reporting requirements at different stages; the incorporation of new tooling for assessing impacts of transport projects; services necessitated by unforeseen changes required in respect of traffic models; additional survey services due to unforeseen loss of data; services required to enable proper assessments  / studies / surveys in respect of the project impact from an environmental and appraisal point of view, which were necessitated by unforeseen changes required in respect of the study area; additional services required to account for delays in other areas of the project due to COVID and other unforeseen circumstances which had a knock impact on this contract; and additional services due to unforeseen technical updates to the project specifications, including additional photomontages and noise monitoring; additional services necessitated to ensure effective public consultations including due to changes to consultation requirements as a result of COVID.
Procuring these services from another contractor would have caused significant inconvenience and duplication of costs. As Jacobs has delivered all service deliverables to date, a new contractor would have needed to verify all decisions taken and surveys, studies and assessments undertaken by Jacobs in order to perform these services. Procuring another contractor for public consultation reasons would have caused significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs.
Additionally the Contracting Authority believes that these contract changes also meet the requirements of Regulation 72(1)(c) (ie, modifications brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority could not have foreseen).
The Contracting Authority believes that most or all of these changes are not substantial modifications of the Contract. This modification notice is being published out of an abundance of caution and to ensure maximum transparency of the changes which have occurred.


Winner: Jacobs Engineering Ireland Limited