579025-2023 - Notification préalable d’attribution directe

Evaluation and scoring of ACRES General Commonage (outside of the ACRES Co-operation Project areas) as part of Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan - West Connacht

The Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (‘ACRES’) is administered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), as part of Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan (CSP).

There are two approaches within ACRES namely:

• ACRES General, available nationally (outside of the high priority geographical area as defined for the ACRES Co-operation approach),

and

• ACRES Co-operation, available to farmers in defined high priority geographical areas (ACRES Co-operation ‘CP’ areas).

Commonage is a mandatory action in ACRES which means that all commonage lands declared by the ACRES applicant in their BPS/BISS in the specified year, whether owned, leased or rented had to must be included in ACRES.

This contract was awarded to engage the services of a team of qualified personnel for the qualitative evaluation and results-based scoring of commonage parcels in ACRES that fall outside of the defined ACRES Co-operation geographical areas under ACRES in the West Connacht region.

The Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (‘ACRES’) is administered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), as part of Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan (CSP).

There are two approaches within ACRES namely:

• ACRES General, available nationally (outside of the high priority geographical area as defined for the ACRES Co-operation approach),

and

• ACRES Co-operation, available to farmers in defined high priority geographical areas (ACRES Co-operation ‘CP’ areas).

Commonage is a mandatory action in ACRES which means that all commonage lands declared by the ACRES applicant in their BPS/BISS in the specified year, whether owned, leased or rented must be included in ACRES.

This contract has been awarded to engage the services of a team of qualified personnel for the qualitative evaluation and results-based scoring of commonage parcels in ACRES that fall outside of the defined ACRES Co-operation geographical areas in the West Connacht region.

Explication:

Open procedure published on 28/04/2023 (Contract Notice 2023/S 084-252438) with 4 lots. Contracts awarded in respect of Lots 1, 2, and 4. For Lot 3 (West Connacht) no suitable tender was received. Contract Award Notice 2023/S 151-482113 was published on 08/08/2023. An RFT was published in April 2023. Only one tender response was received in respect of Lot 3, but it was deemed non-compliant under the rules of the competition.

Following publication of the Contract Award Notice, a negotiated procedure was entered into with WCCP Limited. The contract awarded under this procedure remains unchanged from the initial conditions set out in the Open Procedure competition.