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A EUR 500,000 works contract covers a new watermain, water storage tank, treatment shed and service ducting at Coole Park Nature Reserve, with a three-month delivery period and one integrated lot.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is procuring a compact water infrastructure upgrade at Coole Park Nature Reserve. The work combines pipeline installation, water storage, treatment infrastructure and service ducting within one EUR 500,000 lot, with all listed components contained in the same lot.
The procurement is open, the contract period is three months, and suppliers have 24 calendar days between publication on 22 September 2026 and the 16 October 2026 submission deadline. The buyer profile contains no recorded contract awards in the available Hermix context, so bidders have little buyer-specific award history to use when assessing likely incumbency or repeat-supplier patterns.
Opportunity overview
- Contracting Authority: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HERITAGE
- Buyer Type: Ministry or any other national or federal authority
- Main Activity: Environmental protection
- Document ID: 00652874-2026
- TED Reference: 2026/S 183-00652874
- Tender Title: Coole Park Water Supply Upgrade
- Contact: strategy@housing.gov.ie; +53 9117410
- Scope of Work: Installation of a new watermain, water storage tank, treatment shed and service ducting in Coole Park Nature Reserve
- New watermain installation
- Water storage tank
- Treatment shed
- Service ducting
- Lot Structure: Lot 1 – Coole Park Water Supply Upgrade, value EUR 500,000.00. The full procurement is contained in this single lot.
- Place of Performance: The opportunity-level geography is listed as West, South-East. Lot 1 lists South-East as the main place of performance.
- Estimated Total Value: EUR 500,000.00
- Contract Type: Works
- Contract Duration: 3 months
- Procedure Type: Open
- Award Criteria: Not stated
- Publication Date: 22 September 2026
- Submission Deadline: 16 October 2026
- Tender Opening Date: 16 October 2026
- Language Requirements: English
- EU Funding: No
- Submission Portal: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=9113006
- Source: TED
- Related Notices: No earlier related procurement or corrigendum is listed. The related entry shown is the current contract entry published on 22 September 2026 at EUR 500,000.00.
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Authority and procurement context
The contracting authority is the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in Ireland. It is classified as a ministry or other national or federal authority, and its main activity is environmental protection. The procurement is therefore being run by a national public authority rather than a local or regional buyer.
For this opportunity, the buyer is seeking a works contractor for a clearly bounded physical upgrade at Coole Park Nature Reserve. The procurement scope is specific: a new watermain, a water storage tank, a treatment shed and service ducting. No additional construction elements are listed in the available scope, so bidders should separate what is expressly included from requirements that may appear only in the procurement package on the submission portal.
The Hermix buyer profile is comparatively sparse for this category. That affects how much can be concluded from historical procurement behaviour:
- Similar open tenders: 0, with a recorded value of EUR 0.
- All open tenders: 4, with a combined recorded value of EUR 300,000.
- Similar renewals: 1, valued at EUR 50,000.
- All renewals: 5, with a combined recorded value of EUR 350,000.
- Similar contract awards: 0, with a recorded value of EUR 0.
- All contract awards: 0, with a recorded value of EUR 0.
- Other buyers with similar projects: 794, representing EUR 13 billion in recorded value.
- Similar prior notices: 0. All prior notices: 0.
The absence of recorded awards means there is no buyer-specific historical winner set from which to identify repeat suppliers, incumbent contractors or typical contract sizes. That is an important limitation for competitive analysis. The wider market context is much deeper, however, with 794 other buyers associated with similar projects and EUR 13 billion in recorded value. That figure is useful as broad market context, but it should not be treated as a direct competitor list for this EUR 500,000 project.
Competitive landscape
No winners of similar contracts are listed for this buyer profile, and the Hermix context records zero similar contract awards and zero total contract awards. As a result, there is no reliable contractor ranking to reproduce for this authority and no evidence in the available data that would support naming a likely incumbent.
For bidders, the practical consequence is that qualification has to rely more heavily on the current scope and procedure than on buyer-specific supplier history. The market context does show substantial activity outside this authority: 794 other buyers are associated with similar projects worth EUR 13 billion in aggregate. That provides broader market context for related construction and pipeline work, while saying very little about who is best positioned for this specific procurement.
There is also no contractor-country breakdown associated with a winners list for this buyer. Any conclusion about local versus international competition would therefore go beyond the available evidence. The only geographic facts that can be used directly are the Irish contracting authority, the opportunity-level place of performance listed as West and South-East, and the lot-level location listed as South-East.
Commercial and procedural signals
Several features affect how suppliers should assess the opportunity before deciding whether to bid.
- Award criteria: the criteria and their weightings are not stated. Suppliers need the procurement requirements from the submission portal to understand how price, technical quality or other factors will be assessed.
- Open procedure: the procurement is listed as open. There is no separate restricted shortlist stage stated in the opportunity data, so suppliers should prepare against the requirements of the open competition.
- Single-lot structure: the entire EUR 500,000 scope sits in Lot 1. There is no option to bid separately for the watermain, tank, treatment shed or service ducting.
- Contract duration: three months. This creates a short delivery period for an integrated works package, although no separate mobilisation or commencement date is stated.
- Submission timeline: 24 calendar days from publication on 22 September to the deadline on 16 October 2026. The tender opening date is also 16 October 2026.
- Language: offers are permitted in English.
- EU funding: the procurement is listed as not financed with EU funds.
- Geographic coverage: the opportunity-level place of performance is West, South-East, while the lot-level place is South-East. Suppliers should confirm the exact operational geography in the procurement requirements before pricing logistics or mobilisation.
- Corrigenda: none are listed in the related procurement entries.
The CPV classifications reinforce the physical nature of the work: construction work, construction work for pipelines, general construction work for pipelines, and ancillary works for water pipelines. Combined with the single-lot structure, these classifications show that the listed water supply upgrade components are being procured together rather than split across separate lots.
Strategic context and interpretation
This is a EUR 500,000 public works opportunity with a concentrated single-lot structure. The EUR 500,000 estimate is assigned to one lot, and the contractor is expected to cover the full stated package rather than one isolated component. That makes scope fit more important than the headline value alone: a bidder needs capability across the listed watermain, storage, treatment-shed and ducting work.
The three-month contract duration is the clearest commercial constraint. It does not reveal the start date or detailed sequencing, but it establishes that the contracted period is short. Suppliers assessing the opportunity should therefore focus on whether they can deliver the combined works within that period once the contract begins, rather than assuming a longer framework-style delivery model.
Buyer-specific competitive intelligence is limited. With no recorded awards and no winners list, there is no evidence base for calculating supplier concentration or identifying repeat contractors for this authority. The strongest comparative context sits outside the buyer, where Hermix records 794 other buyers with similar projects worth EUR 13 billion. That wider figure provides evidence of market depth, but not of the likely bidding field for Coole Park.
The lack of disclosed award criteria also limits early qualification. A contractor can assess value, scope, geography, procedure, language and timing from the available information, but it cannot yet determine how the authority will balance commercial and technical factors. That makes retrieval of the full procurement requirements a necessary next step before committing bid resources.
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Practical takeaways for bidders
Who this tender suits
- Works contractors able to deliver a EUR 500,000 single-lot water infrastructure package covering a new watermain, storage tank, treatment shed and service ducting.
- Suppliers with the capacity to complete the contracted works within a three-month period.
- Bidders able to submit in English and deliver in the stated South-East location, while checking whether the broader West, South-East opportunity-level geography adds any further requirement.
- Contractors comfortable bidding through an open procedure without relying on a separate lot for only one part of the physical works.
Critical attention points
- The submission deadline is 16 October 2026, only 24 calendar days after publication. The tender opening date is the same day.
- Award criteria are not stated, so the procurement requirements need to be checked before making assumptions about scoring or price weighting.
- The contract duration is three months. No separate mobilisation date is stated.
- The procurement is one lot worth EUR 500,000.00. The four listed work components are not offered as separate lots.
- The geography should be checked carefully: the opportunity-level entry lists West, South-East, while Lot 1 lists South-East.
- No earlier related procurement or corrigendum is listed, so there is no amendment history in the available related entries to review.
Conclusion
The Coole Park Water Supply Upgrade is a EUR 500,000, three-month works procurement covering four clearly identified infrastructure components in one lot. The buyer profile provides very little historical award evidence, so suppliers cannot rely on recorded incumbent patterns when deciding whether to pursue it.
A structured qualification should therefore concentrate on scope fit, the short contract period, geographic requirements, and the detailed award methodology once retrieved from the procurement portal. Those factors provide the clearest basis for deciding whether the opportunity merits bid resources.
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