Steel

Tender description

Dublin City Council wishes to establish a multi-party framework agreement for the supply of steel for a 3 year period with an option to extend the framework agreement for 1 further year. Dublin City Council’s annual expenditure on steel per annum is estimated at approximately 40 000 EUR. Dublin City Council will be facilitating the establishment of this framework agreement on behalf of itself and the local authorities listed here under who will be parties to the framework. — South Dublin County Council. South Dublin County Council’s annual expenditure on steel per annum is estimated at approximately 20 000 EUR. For further information please refer to documentation available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID 163452 Dublin City Council wishes to establish a multi-party framework agreement for the supply of steel for a 3-year period with an option to extend the framework agreement for 1 further year. Dublin City Council’s annual expenditure on steel per annum is estimated at approximately 40 000 EUR. Dublin City Council will be facilitating the establishment of this framework agreement on behalf of itself and South Dublin County Council. South Dublin County Council’s annual expenditure on steel per annum is estimated at approximately 20 000 EUR. These authorities will be known as the framework purchasers. For the avoidance of doubt Dublin City Council will not be responsible for brokering any agreement between other framework purchasers and the framework operators. Any contracts entered into on foot of the framework agreement will be strictly between each framework purchaser and the chosen framework operator. Under this framework no obligation whatsoever exists on any of these framework purchasers to award any contract. Contract awards will be a matter solely for the framework purchaser in question at any time over the life of the framework. Prices submitted as part of this tender will be applicable to all Dublin local authorities as identified above. The uptake of services and the timing of same will be at the discretion of each of the aforementioned local authorities. No obligation will exist for any contract contracting authority to place orders through this contract. No contract awarded pursuant to this request for tender will confer exclusivity to the contractor where appointed. Tenderers will be evaluated and ranked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (maximum of 5 tenderers will be admitted if 5 are found suitable) for framework membership. The tenderer ranked 1 will have first option on all business for the duration of the framework agreement. If the 1st ranked tenderer is unable to meet requirements, the cascade method will be used – i.e. the 2nd ranked tenderer will be consulted, followed by 3rd and so on. For further information please refer to documentation available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie RFT ID 163452.