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

[Paolo Viscardi]

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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