Design Consultancy Services for a new Fire Service Learning and Development Centre in Nenagh Fire Station, Co. Tipperary
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The pack
Three documents, recognised as ITT-S2(b) v2.0 — the Office of Government Procurement template.
| File | What it is | Read |
|---|---|---|
| FTS9-NenaghLDC-Consultancy.docx | Form of Tender (FTS9) | Read |
| NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx | Instructions to Tenderers | Read |
| NenaghLDC-QC2-Part1.docx | Suitability questionnaire (QC2) | Read |
The project
- Tender for
- Design Consultancy Services for a new Fire Service Learning and Development Centre in Nenagh Fire Station, Co. TipperaryParticulars: Tender for · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Contracting authority
- TIPPERARY COUNTY COUNCILParticulars: For (Contracting Authority) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Location
- Nenagh Fire Station, Co. TipperaryParticulars: At · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Anticipated commencement
- July 2027Particulars: Anticipated Commencement · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Service contract period
- 3 yearsParticulars: Service Contract Period · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
Where the marks are
700 quality marks and 300 price marks — a 70:30 split.Particulars: Award Criteria · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
| Criterion | Marks | Floor (40% of marks) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 250 | 100 | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| B | 200 | 80 | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| C | 150 | 60 | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| D — D1 50, D2 50 | 100 | 40 | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
Notional capital value for assessment: €5,000,000Particulars: Notional Capital Value · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
The three scoring formulas, as the template states them:
- Price marks = A × (1 − 0.5 × ((B − C) / C))
- A — total marks available for price
- B — this tender price
- C — lowest eligible tender price
- Quality marks = A × (B / C)
- A — total marks available for quality
- B — this tender total quality marks
- C — highest-scoring tender total quality marks
- Final score = (A / B × C) + (D / E × F)
- A — this quality marks
- B — total quality marks available
- C — quality ratio
- D — this price marks
- E — total price marks available
- F — price ratio
This pack does not add up
The reader flags anything in a pack that could change how you bid, so you can ask the authority before you price it. It takes no position on which figure is right.
| Criterion | Award table | Basis-of-assessment text | Exceeds the quality total? |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 250 | 3000 | Yes |
| B | 200 | 250 | No |
What to do: Treat the award-criteria table as authoritative but raise a clarification before bidding; the text is inconsistent and one criterion’s stated marks exceed the total.
Where both figures sit: the table value in the award-criteria grid of the Particulars, the text value in the basis-of-assessment wording beneath it — the section the reader cites for this finding.Particulars: Award Criteria · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Worth knowingSubmission deadline is stated as "as per eTenders" — the ITT does not carry the date.Particulars: Tender Submission Deadline (section 5.1) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Worth knowingClarification/query deadline is stated as "as per eTenders" — the ITT does not carry the date.Particulars: Supplemental Information and Queries (section 2.3) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
The query this obliges
A contradiction in an ITT is a job, not information: somebody writes to the authority before the query deadline or the firm bids against a scoring scheme it knows is broken. The reader drafts that letter from what the pack says. It takes no position on which figure is right.
Award criteria — marks stated differently in two places
Tender: Design Consultancy Services for a new Fire Service Learning and Development Centre in Nenagh Fire Station, Co. Tipperary Contracting authority: TIPPERARY COUNTY COUNCIL Reference: [eTenders reference] Dear Sir or Madam, We are preparing a tender for the above and wish to raise the following query. The ITT states different quality marks in two places — A: table 250 vs text 3000 (text value exceeds the whole quality total); B: table 200 vs text 250. This appears at NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx, Particulars: Award Criteria. Please confirm which figures govern the assessment of quality. We should be grateful for your clarification in advance of the deadline for queries. Yours faithfully, [name] [firm]
Still to fill in: eTenders reference, name, firm.
Coira does not send anything on your behalf.
Thresholds you can be excluded on
| Rule | Consequence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Score at least 40% on quality criterion A | Below 40% of 250 marks on A excludes the whole tender before price is opened | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Score at least 40% on quality criterion B | Below 40% of 200 marks on B excludes the whole tender before price is opened | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Score at least 40% on quality criterion C | Below 40% of 150 marks on C excludes the whole tender before price is opened | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Score at least 40% on quality criterion D | Below 40% of 100 marks on D excludes the whole tender before price is opened | Particulars: Minimum Quality Threshold (individual) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Score at least 50% of the 700 total quality marks | Below 350 of 700 total quality marks excludes the tender | Particulars: Minimum Overall Quality Threshold · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Pass every pass/fail criterion | Failing any pass/fail criterion excludes the tender | Instructions section 9.5 · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
Dates
| Field | As stated in the ITT | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Tender submission deadline | Stated as "as per eTenders" — the actual date is on the eTenders listing, not in the ITT | Particulars: Tender Submission Deadline (section 5.1) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Clarification / query deadline | Stated as "as per eTenders" — the actual date is on the eTenders listing, not in the ITT | Particulars: Supplemental Information and Queries (section 2.3) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Supplemental information cut-off | Stated as "as per eTenders" — the actual date is on the eTenders listing, not in the ITT | Particulars: Supplemental Information and Queries · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Anticipated commencement | July 2027 | Particulars: Anticipated Commencement · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Anticipated award decision | July 2026 | Particulars: Indicative Tender Programme · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Service contract period | 3 years | Particulars: Anticipated Service Contract Period · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Tender validity | As stated in Form of Tender | Particulars: Tender Validity Period (section 10.1) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
The live reader can offer a matching notice from Coira’s tender feed for a deferred deadline. That lookup is not run for this static page, so the blanks stay blank.
Hours the authority will apply to your rates
Set by the tender for assessment purposes, not chosen by the bidder. The ITT applies these hours to the rates quoted when it assesses price; how that combines with the lump-sum fee is stated in the Pricing section of the Particulars, not here.Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
| Role named in the tender | Hours | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Lead Consultant (Project Manager/ Employer's Representative) | 50 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Lead Consultant (Project Supervisor Design Process) | 24 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Civil and Structural Design Engineer | 64 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Architect | 64 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Building Services Design Consultant | 40 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Quantity Surveyor | 40 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Senior Technician | 64 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Junior Technician | 40 | Particulars: Notional Hours for Assessment Purposes · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx |
| Total | 386 |
What has to go back
10 items named by the pack.
- Completed Form of Tender with Schedules A and B, signedDo not amend Schedules A or B to the Conditions of Engagement — amendment can reject the tender.Instructions section 5.2 / 5.14 · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Pricing Schedule — lump-sum feeParticulars: Pricing (section 5.5) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Tender Schedule (services as defined in the Tender Schedule)Particulars: Pricing (section 5.5) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Detailed breakdown of tender price (total estimate broken into man-hours × hourly rates)Required by the Particulars.Instructions section 5.2 / 5.5 · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Quality response — criterion A (250 marks)max 3 A4 pagesParticulars: Award Criteria / Basis of Assessment · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Quality response — criterion B (200 marks)Particulars: Award Criteria / Basis of Assessment · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Quality response — criterion C (150 marks)max 3 A4 pagesParticulars: Award Criteria / Basis of Assessment · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Quality response — sub-criterion D1 (50 marks)Particulars: Award Criteria / Basis of Assessment · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Quality response — sub-criterion D2 (50 marks)Particulars: Award Criteria / Basis of Assessment · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Suitability Assessment Submission — complete QC2 Part 2 and provide the evidence each applicable Qualification Criterion requiresQC2 Part 1 is in this pack; respond in QC2 Part 2.Instructions section 2.4 / 5.2 · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
Submission
- Method
- Electronic — eTenders web portalParticulars: Means of Tender submission (section 5.1) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Language
- EnglishParticulars: Language (section 5.4) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Pricing basis
- Lump Sum fee based on Pricing Schedule and for services as defined in the Tender ScheduleParticulars: Pricing (section 5.5) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
- Hard copies
- N/AParticulars: Hard Copies (section 5.3) · NenaghLDC-ITT_S2b_Services_Open_THR_v2.0.docx
Format required:
- PDF (read-only)
- Separately named documents
- Each document names the applicant, the contract and its content
- Documents needing signature signed before conversion to PDF
Source
This pack was issued by TIPPERARY COUNTY COUNCIL. The contract notice is TED 464653-2026, published through eTenders and TED, with a submission deadline of 28 August 2026 — the competition had closed before this reading was made on 2 September 2026.
The competition closed before this reading was made, so the documents may no longer be downloadable from the portal once a competition closes. Where the documents are still available on eTenders, every figure above can be checked against the cited section.
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