Tender Notice
Ireland - Dublin - Printing equipment for
National Parliament Buildings
1. Awarding Authority:
Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas,
Leinster House,
Kildare St.,
Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone: +353-1-6183344. Fax:
+353-1-6184117.
2.
(a) Award procedure chosen:
Open.
(b) Form of contract for which tenders
are being requested:
Purchase and supplies, service/maintenance.
3.
(a) Place of Delivery:
Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
(b) Nature of goods to be
supplied:
CPV: 29561200, 29862200. Purchase of new full-colour A3 printing press
systems/installations.
(c) Quantity of goods to
be supplied, options:
3 new separate full-colour A3 printing press systems/installations immediately.
Quantity may rise to five within a 12-month period.
(d) Part tenders:
Not admitted.
4. Time limits for
completion or duration of the contract, for starting or delivering supplies:
As soon as possible: lead time for delivery will be a factor in considering tenders.
5. (a) Documents from:
Ted McEnery, Personnel Officer, Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Leinster House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone: +353-1-6183344. Fax: +353-1-6184117.
Email: ted.mcenery@oireachtas.ie
(b) Requests not later
than:
15:00 hours (local time) on Monday 29th October, 2001.
(c) Fee:
No charge is made for documentation.
6. (a) Deadline for
receipt of tenders:
12 noon (local time) on Monday, 12th November 2001.
(b) Address to which they
must be sent:
Ted McEnery,
Personnel Officer,
Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas,
Leinster House,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.
(c) Language or languages in which they
must be drawn up: English.
7. (a) Persons authorised to be present at
opening of tenders: Authorised staff of the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas.
(b) Date, time and
place:
Monday, 12th November 2001. 15:00 hours (local time). Office of the Houses of
the Oireachtas, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
8. Deposits and
guarantees:
None required.
9. Financing and payment:
Fixed price contract for equipment with details of supplies and service/maintenance costs.
10. Legal form in case of
group bidders:
Where a successful proposal comes from a group consortium, a contractual agreement will be
entered into with the lead contractor only.
11. Economic and technical
standards required:
In order that applicants may be considered, the following information must be submitted
with the initial application:
- Details of inscription of the company in any
professional or trade body within the country in which the applicant is established.
- Certificates drawn up by official quality
control institutes or agencies of recognised competence attesting conformity to certain
specifications or standards.
- Details of any significant and appropriate
contracts in the past three years.
- Details of the supplier's economic standing
as per tender documents.
- Details of any relevant professional
qualifications of those individuals who will be directly involved in providing
service/maintenance.
- A statement of whether those individuals who
will be directly involved in providing service/maintenance are employees of the company
tendering or if they are engaged on a subcontract basis.
- Under the terms of the Tax Clearance
Certification scheme, evidence from the Irish Revenue Commissioners that the tenderer's
tax affairs are in order must be provided before a contract is awarded.
The Authority shall be entitled to request and
obtain from any party submitting a tender such further information as it considers
necessary for proper consideration of the tender.
12. Tenders may lapse
after:
120 days.
13. Award criteria:
The lowest tender will not necessarily be accepted. The contract will be awarded from
qualifying tenders on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender, using the
following criteria:
(a) functional characteristics;
(b) technical merit;
(c) the quality, certainty and continuity of
service and support offered;
(d) costs (including capital costs, consumable
costs, value received for any trade-in of used equipment, etc.);
(e) lead time for delivery and commissioning
of equipment;
(f) level of ancillary services/accommodation
necessary to support installation.
14. Prohibition on variants:
Not applicable.
15. Other information:
The Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas proposes that
certain information relating to this tender competition will be made available on request
to the public. Details are contained in the tender documentation.
The deadline for receipt of tenders is 12 noon
(local time) on Monday, 12th November 2001.
16. Date of publication of
pre-information:
No prior information notice has been published.
17. Date of dispatch of
notice:
Wednesday, 19th September, 2001.
18: Date of Receipt of
notice:
Wednesday, 19th September, 2001.
19: Covered by the
‘GPA’ agreement:
Yes.
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