9661 Qualification System for Bridge and Riverbed Inspections
Ireland · Dublin · how to bid here →
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 7 May 2030 at 12:00 — 1311 days left.
- The submission point is stated in the notice (link on the right).
- Offer and evidence in: ENG.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis above: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (58 awards, most recently September 2026) — the next award is due around October 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to Causeway Geotech Ltd.n = 58
- 32% of awards went to companies from abroad (562 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 5%.n = 562
- 25% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (562 awards since 2016, spread over 238 companies). That is well below the sector norm (37%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 562 awards since 2016
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (349 procedures with a bid count); 14% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 6 bids.n = 349
- The award came in at a median 100% of the estimated value (22 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually about right here. Sector: 97%.n = 22
From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 04/10/2026.
Foreign bidders
In Ireland · Architecture & engineering, 381 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 8,385 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, Spain, France.
Typical field: median 7 (from 45 awards).
What the buyer is looking for
IÉ invites applications to participate in the pre-qualification process to appoint suitably qualified companies to a qualification system for Bridge and Riverbed Inspection Services that may arise on an ad-hoc basis. Those companies successfully appointed to the Qualification System will receive all future tender enquiries. Iarnród Éireann has over 450 bridges (structures greater than 2m) over water. All these bridges and riverbeds require periodic inspections. Some inspections are carried out yearly, other are every 3 years and more are on a 6 yearly cycle. Iarnród Éireann is looking to appoint specialist expertise to undertake inspection of railway bridges that traverse water courses as well as carry out bridge and river surveys. The applicants are to provide expertise in the following areas: • Provide Health and Safety and Risk Assessment plans for the specific work • Provide…
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… qualified divers/surveyors for a bridge and riverbed inspections/surveys • Record the topography using surveying techniques • Using the previous base line surveys (supplied by IÉ) identify changes in the structure and/or the river channel. • Provide factual report on findings. • Provide for Engineers review (review undertaken by a Chartered Civil Engineer) of the factual report before the reports are issued to Irish Rail. The Qualification System is also to include for inspection of any structure following a major flood event. In the period after a flood event, structures throughout the IÉ network may need to be inspected to determine the extent, if any, of damage caused by the event.
Selection criteria — in the procurement documents
The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on the right), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in English.
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Contract
Who has won here before
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Carra Plant Hire Ltd | 18 | 2024–2026 |
| TRIUR Construction Limited | 13 | 2025–2026 |
| Cork Metal Company Limited | 13 | 2024–2026 |
| Global Rail Services Ltd | 10 | 2024–2026 |
| Pod-Trak infrastructure | 7 | 2024–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this
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