[Nhcoll-l] Call for natural history conservation service providers

[Paolo Viscardi]

Apologies for cross-posting

I just wanted to send a reminder that our call for tenders for conservation
services at the National Museum of Ireland closes on 1st November 2023.
Many thanks to all who have expressed an interest, we are looking forward
to seeing your tenders!

We have had some feedback that the system isn't easy to use, which we are
aware of, but unfortunately we have no control over it as it's part of the
Irish government's procurement process. However, I am attaching some
guidance documents that may help with using the system.

Best wishes to all,

Paolo


On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 15:30, Paolo Viscardi <p.viscardi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> You may have heard, we have a major redevelopment project about to kick
> off in Dublin, and as part of that we need people to provide a range of
> conservation services over the next few years.
>
> This will take the form of a series of contracts of work and we are hoping
> to build a framework of service providers we can call on to do the
> necessary work. We have broken the types of work down into various lots and
> we invite people / companies to apply for any and all of the work lots that
> they are qualified and competent to undertake. The lots are as follows:
>
> Lot 1: Complex and/or large natural history mount deinstallation,
> conservation and reinstallation (e.g. dismantling an elephant skeleton and
> taking down and repairing a suspended taxidermy basking shark)
>
> Lot 2: Standard natural history mount conservation (e.g. cleaning and
> repair of historic taxidermy and skeletons)
>
> Lot 3: Dry invertebrate specimen conservation (e.g. repairing damaged
> insect specimens and conserving a large gelatin prepared octopus)
>
> Lot 4: Fluid specimen conservation (e.g. changing preserving fluids from
> formalin to IMS and repairing damaged fluid specimens)
>
> Lot 5: Blaschka model conservation (e.g. cleaning soot from and
> reconstructing partially dismantled model sponge walls comprised of glass
> and animal glue)
>
> Due to the scale of the upcoming conservation project (maximum total of 5
> million Euro) we have strict governance and procurement responsibilities to
> meet in the setting up of the framework of service suppliers. As such, the
> initial process is managed through the European Dynamics (previously called
> eTenders) platform:
> https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=2461183
> under reference number 2461183 and title “Five Multi–Party Frameworks for
> the Provision of Specialist Natural History Conservation Services to the
> National Museum of Ireland”.
>
> We appreciate that this system will be unfamiliar to many people, so we
> encourage you to take a look at the guidance available on the Economic
> Operator (EO) guide here:
> https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/viewInfo.do?isPopup=true&section=userManual
> and if you encounter any issues you can contact the online technical
> support: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/PrepareContactUsAction.do
>
> If you have good experience in natural history conservation, we are keen
> to work with you!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Paolo
>
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