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Ireland - Towing and pushing services of ships - 26/042 - Provision of Towage Services for Ireland's Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve

Upcoming Ireland Supporting transport services

Buyer Gas Networks Ireland

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Gas Networks Ireland intends to establish a Qualification System to run a competitive procurement process for marine towage services supporting the Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve in the Shannon Estuary. The requirement is for a total of 160 Total Bollard Pull of towage, delivered through two tugs of 80 TBP each, equipped with active escort notation and FiFi 1 capability. The services will support manoeuvring of the Floating Storage Regasification Unit and visiting liquefied natural gas carriers at the project site. This is a periodic indicative notice published for information purposes only, and any future competitions will be advertised via the Official Journal of the European Union and etenders.gov.ie.

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Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) intends to establish a Qualification System (QS) for the purpose of running a competitive procurement process for the provision of Marine Towage services to support the Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve (SGER) in the Shannon Estuary. GNI has identified the requirement for a total of 160 Total Bollard Pull (TBP) of towage delivered through two 80TBP tugs with active escort notation and FiFi 1 capability to support the manoeuvring of the Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) and visiting Liquified Natural Gas Carriers (LNGCs) at the project site. This is a periodic indicative notice (PIN) and is used for information purposes only. This is not a call for competition and therefore no tender documents are available. Any future competitions will be subject to appropriate advertisement via the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and on www.etenders.gov.ie.

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Gas Networks Ireland

Ireland

notices in the register
72
awards
41
awarded in total
€18.8M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
34
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
15%

Based on 39 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Competition

of the awards went to companies based in another country
26%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Supporting transport services - Ireland

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Ireland · Supporting transport services

different companies won awards here
48
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
28%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
26 of 33
buyers awarded contracts here
32

Based on 94 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners. New: no award from the same buyer or market in the two years before.

Competition

of the awards went to companies based in another country
5%

As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.

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