Environmental indicators analysis other than for construction

Tender description

The Education Procurement Service, (EPS), on behalf of The Minister for Communications, Climate Action & Environment as represented by the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) invites responses (‘Tenders’) to this Request for Tenders (‘RFT’) from economic operators (‘Tenderers’) for the provision of the services as described in Appendix 1 to this RFT, ‘Requirements and Specifications’, (‘the Services’). The Geological Survey of Ireland is the contracting authority for this public procurement competition (‘the Contracting Authority’). The Education Procurement Service, (EPS), on behalf of The Minister for Communications, Climate Action & Environment as represented by the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) invites responses (‘Tenders’) to this Request for Tenders (‘RFT’) from economic operators (‘Tenderers’) for the provision of the services as described in Appendix 1 to this RFT, ‘Requirements and Specifications’, (‘the Services’). The Geological Survey of Ireland is the contracting authority for this public procurement competition (‘the Contracting Authority’). This RFT is for geochemical analysis of these stream sediment and soil samples: (a) preparation of fine powder pulps into pressed powder pellets and (b) chemical analyses of the pressed powder pellets for major, minor and trace total element concentrations by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRFS) analyses. Samples of milled sample material, each to be pre-prepared to pulps of nominal fraction size <32 μm, are to be transported from GSI in Dublin, Ireland, to the Contractor's chosen facility to be prepared into pressed powder pellets designated for analyses by a combination of energy-dispersive (ED) and/or wavelength-dispersive (WD) XRFS chemical analytical methods. The number of samples to be collected in the period 2016 — 2019 is estimated to be of the order of 10,000 soil samples and 10,000 sediment samples. Collection of these samples is dependent upon successful completion of separate sampling contract(s). Tenderers should note that only compliant and qualifying tenders shall be evaluated. The Qualification Criteria are set out in Part 3, Section 3.2 (pages labelled 16–20 of this RFT) and the Award Criteria, including minimum required scores, are set out in Part 3, Section 3.3 (pages labelled 20–23 of this RFT). Note also the Tenderers' Statement (Appendix 3) and Tenderers' Aide-Memoire (Appendix 5). Tenderers must respond with a proposal for the entire works.