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Maintenance Dredging Contract
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 23 November at 12:00 — 22 days left.
- You submit on eTenders Ireland — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- Offer and evidence in: English.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
What the buyer is looking for
Port of Waterford are inviting tenders for a term-measured maintenance dredging contract at the Port in Southeast Ireland to maintain depth in the Ports navigational channel, turning circle and berths. The work is to be executed by a modern Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger with at least two campaigns annually. All information is contained in the Tender Documents
Contract
Type of service
Selection criteria — in the procurement documents
The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in English.
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Tender documents — direct download
Who has won at this buyer so far
Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Safehaven Marine | 1 | 2019 |
| John Tinnelly and Sons Ireland Ltd | 1 | 2013 |
| Roadmaster Caravans Ltd | 1 | 2014 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 5 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 9,043 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 32 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 876 procedures). A normal window for this market.
The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.
Foreign bidders
In Ireland · Construction work, 129 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 9,914 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, Greece, Germany.
Submission language: English.
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