Date of dispatch of this notice: 16/09/2015
Expire date: 19/10/2015
External Reference: 2015-994704
TED Reference: 2015/S 182-328756
Date of dispatch of this notice: 16/09/2015
Expire date: 19/10/2015
External Reference: 2015-994704
TED Reference: 2015/S 182-328756
UCDOPP641 - Glazed Aluminium Façade for the New UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland
Belfield
This is a specialist works package for the design, supply and installation of the
Glazed aluminium Façade to the ground first and second level of a new 3 Storey
building within a fully operational University campus /Live environment which
allows open access to students, staff and the general public. These units will
need to be of exceptional high quality and finish. The Specialist Contractor will be
novated over to the Main Contractor.
This is a specialist works package for the design, supply and installation of the Glazed aluminium Façade to the ground first and second level of a new 3 Storey building within a fully operational University campus /Live environment which allows open access to students, staff and the general public. These units will need to be of exceptional high quality and finish. The Specialist Contractor will be novated over to the Main Contractor.
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Payment terms will be in accordance with provisions of the form of Contract public works contract for minor building & civil engineering works deigned by the employer’
Contract is intended to be awarded to a single main contractor. If a number of contractors apply as a group or joint venture and are successful, either a lead contractor must be nominated who will be responsible for providing the service or a Joint Venture must be formed or have been in existence prior to the date of the contract notice with whom the Awarding Authority will sign the contract.
’public works contract for minor building & civil engineering works deigned by the employer’
As QW3 Suitability Assessment questionnaire and associated questionnaire. Candidates must declare that none of the circumstances specified in Directive 2004/18/EC Article 45 and 51 apply to the applicant.
Evidence of Turnover, Public & Employer Liability Insurance, and capacity to obtain Performance Bond all as stated QW3 Suitability Assessment questionnaire and associated questionnaire.
Average Turnover €2 million
Public Liability Insurance; Employer Liability; Bond all as stated in QW3 Suitability Assessment questionnaire and associated questionnaire.
Educational and Professional qualifications Management, Educational and Professional qualifications Personnel; Previous Experience; Measures for Quality, Manpower, and H&S competency all as stated in QW3 and associated documents.
Minimum Standards all as stated in QW3 Suitability Assessment questionnaire and associated questionnaire.
UCDOPP641
(1) University College Dublin proposed to invite tenders from candidates who have been successfully selected / shortlisted at the ‘Suitability Assessment’ stage. Candidates are advised that contracts will be awarded on the basis of the ‘Public Works Contract for Building and Civil Works Designed by the Employer’ – issued by the Department of Finance.
(2) The successful tenderer will be required to comply with the Conditions of Contract / Instructions to Tenderers in regard to the following:-
(a) Production of a ‘Tax Clearance Certificate’. In the case of a non-resident tenderer, a statement from the ‘Revenue Commissioners’ in lieu of a ‘Tax Clearance Certificate’ will be required.
(b) Details of Employer Liability, Public Liability and other insurance policies as required by the Conditions of Contract.
(c) Evidence of membership of a ‘Sick Pay’ and ‘Pension Scheme’ in accordance with the Construction Industry Federation Guidelines.
(d) Compliance with Health and Safety Legislation and the submission of appropriate documentation.
(e) Other requirements specified in the Conditions of Contract.
(3) Tenderers may be required to attend clarification meetings in Dublin, at their own expense.
(4) No tenderer will be reimbursed for any expense incurred in this competition. The Contracting Authority accepts no liability for any costs, irrespective of the outcome of the competition, even if the competition is postponed or cancelled at any state of the process.
(5) The Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003 apply to this contract. Tenderers shall state if any of (and the reasons why) information supplied by them in response to this notice is confidential or commercially sensitive or should not be disclosed in respect of a request for information under the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003.
(6) The successful tenderer to whom it is proposed to award the contract will be required, before acceptance of his tender, to comply with the tax clearance procedures for the public sector as set out in circular 22/95 ‘Tax Clearance Procedures’ ‘Public Sector Contracts’ issued by the Department for Finance, Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
(7) The Contracting Authority may terminate this competition (or any part thereof), change the basis of and the procedures for the bidding process, at any time, or procure the project by alternative means if it appears that the project can thereby be more advantageous procured. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award a Contract under this competition.
(8) The Contracting Authority reserves the right to phase / stage the works and may proceed with the works, in whole or in part and which may:
(a) run concurrently with all / other phases of building works during the educational term period or outside of the education term, out of hours and over consecutive years.
(b) proceed with some / part of the phases or stages of the building works during the educational term period or outside of the education term, our of hours and over consecutive years.
(c) not proceed with parts of the buildings works at all.
(9) Tenderers must register their interest in the competition on the e-tenders website (www.e-tenders.gov.ie) in order to obtain the ‘Suitability Assessment’ form and to be included on the mailing list for documentation in relation to the competition.