Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has launched the tender process to appoint a consultant engineer to prepare an options report for fish passage improvement works at the Annacotty Weir on the lower Mulkear River outside Limerick.
IFI is leading the Annacotty Fish Passage Project as the State agency with responsibility for fish in rivers such as the Mulkear.
The options report must consider all environmental and engineering circumstances that are present at the site, upstream and downstream of the weir.
Anyone interested in this tender is advised to register on the eTenders website to access all tender documentation including the scoping document and service requirements.
The deadline for submitting tenders is 5pm on Tuesday 14 March and can only be done via the eTenders website.
As detailed in the tender documents, the options report is to be based on several environmental and technical surveys, using a recognised decision matrix, together with a stakeholder decision matrix. The appointed consultants will then present a preferred option for fish pass improvement works at Annacotty Weir.
The consultants will also be required to attend project meetings and public consultation meetings to outline their findings to stakeholders.
Following the approval of the preferred option, the consultants will then be required to prepare design, calculations and drawings of the preferred option.
These will be sent to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the OPW (Office of Public Works) for licences and approvals.
The consultants will be required to prepare a planning application of the preferred option for Limerick City and County Council.
Subject to planning permission being granted, the consultants will be required to prepare construction drawings and tender documents for the hire of a construction company. They will also be required to assist IFI in the tender assessment process.
The consultants will then be required to oversee the construction phase of the preferred option and sign-off on the completed project.
