COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

"To ask the Chief Executive to detail the tender process for the refurbishment of the playground at Griffeen Valley Park, including who was awarded the contract, if already done; to outline the main requirements sought in this and similar tender processes, ie value for money, draft design etc and to clarify what autonomy if any the Council has for tendering projects in this €180.,000 price in terms of previous jobs done by the contractors in other areas etc.?"

REPLY:

The design for the construction/upgrading of the play space at Griffeen Valley Park is nearing completion. It is expected that it will be ready to go out to tender in June 2015.

In relation to the tender process for the play spaces: all tenders have to follow the current Procurement Process as defined by consideration of Council, Government and EU rules. There are strict guidelines in preparing and issuing the tender and guidelines on assessing the tender submissions received and in making the recommendation to proceed to award of contract which includes an appeals process.

Assessment of tenders is based on the consideration of a combination of criteria, including, but not exclusively, the position of the firm making the tender submission in terms of capacity, previous work undertaken, financial capacity, organisational and skills capacity, compliance with tax law as well as consideration of the tender sum submitted. All tenders are issued through the etenders system (www.etenders.gov.ie) and above certain thresholds they must be issued through the European Union system using the Official Journal of the European Union.