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Framework Agreement for the Supply of Electric Bus Charging Infrastructure (EBCI) Including Associated Services and Works

Contract Value:
EUR 186M - 186M
Notice Type:
Contract Notice
Published Date:
27 November 2025
Closing Date:
08 December 2025
Location(s):
IE061 Dublin (IE IRELAND)
Description:
The National Transport Authority is seeking a Framework Agreement for the design, supply, installation, and maintenance of high-power charging infrastructure for battery-electric buses, including upgrades to associated electrical distribution networks.

The National Transport Authority (“NTA”) is undertaking, through a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition, a procurement competition for a Framework Agreement for the supply of high-power charging infrastructure primarily designed to support the operation of battery-electric buses (EBCI) and associated services and works. At a high level, the scope of the proposed Framework Agreement will include the design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance and/or long-term support of EBCI, and associated customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. In terms of scale, indicative volumes are upwards of 2,000 high-powered DC charging installations over the term of the Framework Agreement. Full details regarding the prequalification stage are available in the Pre-Qualification Document. More information on the detailed scope of requirements will be detailed in the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) documentation issued to Qualified Applicants after the prequalification stage. The Framework Agreement will be in place for an initial period of four (4) years with the option for the NTA to extend to a total duration of up to eight (8) years. Each provider will deliver, as the lead contracting entity, all elements of the following detailed scope: • Design, including electrical, mechanical and civils. • Equipment and materials supply, including those associated with customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. • Installation, testing and commissioning of charging infrastructure, including integration with different types of battery-electric vehicles, charge management systems, depot management systems and energy management systems. • Maintenance and/or long-term support of charging infrastructure, including fault diagnosis and rectification, technical support and supply of serviceable items and spares. • Charging infrastructure monitoring/management, and potentially energy monitoring/management, systems and software (where requested by the Authority) The civils design package will be produced by the awarded provider, with the civils works procured separately by the Authority or procured/performed by other registered Contracting Authorities. The provider will produce designs, drawings, BOQ, etc for the civil works and retain design responsibilities for this scope throughout. The Framework will be available to bus operators that are subject to a public services contract with the NTA, entered into under the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 or public bus passenger services which are licenced by the NTA under the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 (PTR Act 2009). The NTA and Other Contracting Authorities shall be entitled to award a call-off under the Framework Agreement to procure a Framework contractor to deliver the works types or any element of the works types (for example design, supply installation construction work and/or maintenance) required for an individual Scheme or a combination of Schemes under this Framework Agreement From a technical perspective, the Authority will require: • All forms of high-power and ultra-high-power Direct Current (DC) charging solutions, including both plug-in (primarily CCS 2.0) and overhead automated connection device (primarily ACD Type A, inverted pantograph) solutions. • Solutions suitable for mounting on the ground within a yard or for suspending from a gantry mounted within a yard or a depot building (or potentially on-street) or for suspending from the roof structure of a depot building or similar. • All scales of installation from a basic 1 or 2 charging station set-up to a 200+ charging gun installation. • Straightforward interfacing with different types of battery-electric buses and with charge management, depot management and other systems via standard protocols such as VDV 261, VDV 463, IEC 15118, IEC 63110, OCPP, IEC 61851, etc


LOT-0001
Lot 1 - Single Award Lot for the Provision of Greater Than Twenty (20) Charging Guns or Equivalent.
The National Transport Authority (“NTA”) is undertaking, through a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition, a procurement competition for a Framework Agreement for the supply of high-power charging infrastructure primarily designed to support the operation of battery-electric buses (EBCI) and associated services and works. At a high level, the scope of the proposed Framework Agreement will include the design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance and/or long-term support of EBCI, and associated customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. In terms of scale, indicative volumes are upwards of 2,000 high-powered DC charging installations over the term of the Framework Agreement. Full details regarding the prequalification stage are available in the Pre-Qualification Document. More information on the detailed scope of requirements will be detailed in the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) documentation issued to Qualified Applicants after the prequalification stage. The Framework Agreement will be in place for an initial period of four (4) years with the option for the NTA to extend to a total duration of up to eight (8) years. Each provider will deliver, as the lead contracting entity, all elements of the following detailed scope: • Design, including electrical, mechanical and civils. • Equipment and materials supply, including those associated with customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. • Installation, testing and commissioning of charging infrastructure, including integration with different types of battery-electric vehicles, charge management systems, depot management systems and energy management systems. • Maintenance and/or long-term support of charging infrastructure, including fault diagnosis and rectification, technical support and supply of serviceable items and spares. • Charging infrastructure monitoring/management, and potentially energy monitoring/management, systems and software (where requested by the Authority) The civils design package will be produced by the awarded provider, with the civils works procured separately by the Authority or procured/performed by other registered Contracting Authorities. The provider will produce designs, drawings, BOQ, etc for the civil works and retain design responsibilities for this scope throughout. The Framework will be available to bus operators that are subject to a public services contract with the NTA, entered into under the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 or public bus passenger services which are licenced by the NTA under the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 (PTR Act 2009). The NTA and Other Contracting Authorities shall be entitled to award a call-off under the Framework Agreement to procure a Framework contractor to deliver the works types or any element of the works types (for example design, supply installation construction work and/or maintenance) required for an individual Scheme or a combination of Schemes under this Framework Agreement From a technical perspective, the Authority will require: • All forms of high-power and ultra-high-power Direct Current (DC) charging solutions, including both plug-in (primarily CCS 2.0) and overhead automated connection device (primarily ACD Type A, inverted pantograph) solutions. • Solutions suitable for mounting on the ground within a yard or for suspending from a gantry mounted within a yard or a depot building (or potentially on-street) or for suspending from the roof structure of a depot building or similar. • All scales of installation from a basic 1 or 2 charging station set-up to a 200+ charging gun installation. • Straightforward interfacing with different types of battery-electric buses and with charge management, depot management and other systems via standard protocols such as VDV 261, VDV 463, IEC 15118, IEC 63110, OCPP, IEC 61851, etc


LOT-0002
Lot 2 - Multiple Award Lot for the Provision of Greater Than Twenty (20) Charging Guns or Equivalent.
The National Transport Authority (“NTA”) is undertaking, through a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition, a procurement competition for a Framework Agreement for the supply of high-power charging infrastructure primarily designed to support the operation of battery-electric buses (EBCI) and associated services and works. At a high level, the scope of the proposed Framework Agreement will include the design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance and/or long-term support of EBCI, and associated customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. In terms of scale, indicative volumes are upwards of 2,000 high-powered DC charging installations over the term of the Framework Agreement. Full details regarding the prequalification stage are available in the Pre-Qualification Document. More information on the detailed scope of requirements will be detailed in the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) documentation issued to Qualified Applicants after the prequalification stage. The Framework Agreement will be in place for an initial period of four (4) years with the option for the NTA to extend to a total duration of up to eight (8) years. Each provider will deliver, as the lead contracting entity, all elements of the following detailed scope: • Design, including electrical, mechanical and civils. • Equipment and materials supply, including those associated with customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. • Installation, testing and commissioning of charging infrastructure, including integration with different types of battery-electric vehicles, charge management systems, depot management systems and energy management systems. • Maintenance and/or long-term support of charging infrastructure, including fault diagnosis and rectification, technical support and supply of serviceable items and spares. • Charging infrastructure monitoring/management, and potentially energy monitoring/management, systems and software (where requested by the Authority) The civils design package will be produced by the awarded provider, with the civils works procured separately by the Authority or procured/performed by other registered Contracting Authorities. The provider will produce designs, drawings, BOQ, etc for the civil works and retain design responsibilities for this scope throughout. The Framework will be available to bus operators that are subject to a public services contract with the NTA, entered into under the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 or public bus passenger services which are licenced by the NTA under the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 (PTR Act 2009). The NTA and Other Contracting Authorities shall be entitled to award a call-off under the Framework Agreement to procure a Framework contractor to deliver the works types or any element of the works types (for example design, supply installation construction work and/or maintenance) required for an individual Scheme or a combination of Schemes under this Framework Agreement From a technical perspective, the Authority will require: • All forms of high-power and ultra-high-power Direct Current (DC) charging solutions, including both plug-in (primarily CCS 2.0) and overhead automated connection device (primarily ACD Type A, inverted pantograph) solutions. • Solutions suitable for mounting on the ground within a yard or for suspending from a gantry mounted within a yard or a depot building (or potentially on-street) or for suspending from the roof structure of a depot building or similar. • All scales of installation from a basic 1 or 2 charging station set-up to a 200+ charging gun installation. • Straightforward interfacing with different types of battery-electric buses and with charge management, depot management and other systems via standard protocols such as VDV 261, VDV 463, IEC 15118, IEC 63110, OCPP, IEC 61851, etc


LOT-0003
Lot 3 - Multiple Award Lot for the Provision of Less Than Or Equal to Twenty (20) Charging Guns or Equivalent.
The National Transport Authority (“NTA”) is undertaking, through a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition, a procurement competition for a Framework Agreement for the supply of high-power charging infrastructure primarily designed to support the operation of battery-electric buses (EBCI) and associated services and works. At a high level, the scope of the proposed Framework Agreement will include the design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance and/or long-term support of EBCI, and associated customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. In terms of scale, indicative volumes are upwards of 2,000 high-powered DC charging installations over the term of the Framework Agreement. Full details regarding the prequalification stage are available in the Pre-Qualification Document. More information on the detailed scope of requirements will be detailed in the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) documentation issued to Qualified Applicants after the prequalification stage. The Framework Agreement will be in place for an initial period of four (4) years with the option for the NTA to extend to a total duration of up to eight (8) years. Each provider will deliver, as the lead contracting entity, all elements of the following detailed scope: • Design, including electrical, mechanical and civils. • Equipment and materials supply, including those associated with customer side electrical distribution network upgrades. • Installation, testing and commissioning of charging infrastructure, including integration with different types of battery-electric vehicles, charge management systems, depot management systems and energy management systems. • Maintenance and/or long-term support of charging infrastructure, including fault diagnosis and rectification, technical support and supply of serviceable items and spares. • Charging infrastructure monitoring/management, and potentially energy monitoring/management, systems and software (where requested by the Authority) The civils design package will be produced by the awarded provider, with the civils works procured separately by the Authority or procured/performed by other registered Contracting Authorities. The provider will produce designs, drawings, BOQ, etc for the civil works and retain design responsibilities for this scope throughout. The Framework will be available to bus operators that are subject to a public services contract with the NTA, entered into under the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 or public bus passenger services which are licenced by the NTA under the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009 (PTR Act 2009). The NTA and Other Contracting Authorities shall be entitled to award a call-off under the Framework Agreement to procure a Framework contractor to deliver the works types or any element of the works types (for example design, supply installation construction work and/or maintenance) required for an individual Scheme or a combination of Schemes under this Framework Agreement From a technical perspective, the Authority will require: • All forms of high-power and ultra-high-power Direct Current (DC) charging solutions, including both plug-in (primarily CCS 2.0) and overhead automated connection device (primarily ACD Type A, inverted pantograph) solutions. • Solutions suitable for mounting on the ground within a yard or for suspending from a gantry mounted within a yard or a depot building (or potentially on-street) or for suspending from the roof structure of a depot building or similar. • All scales of installation from a basic 1 or 2 charging station set-up to a 200+ charging gun installation. • Straightforward interfacing with different types of battery-electric buses and with charge management, depot management and other systems via standard protocols such as VDV 261, VDV 463, IEC 15118, IEC 63110, OCPP, IEC 61851, etc

The Buyer:
National Transport Authority_1149
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Additional document: MAR5363076-2025
CPV Code(s):
31000000 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
31100000 - Electric motors, generators and transformers
31121110 - Power converters
31158000 - Chargers
31600000 - Electrical equipment and apparatus
31610000 - Electrical equipment for engines and vehicles
34144900 - Electric vehicles
44000000 - Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
45200000 - Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
45300000 - Building installation work
45310000 - Electrical installation work
50100000 - Repair, maintenance and associated services of vehicles and related equipment
51100000 - Installation services of electrical and mechanical equipment
60100000 - Road transport services
63712100 - Bus station services
65300000 - Electricity distribution and related services
71300000 - Engineering services
71321000 - Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings
71322000 - Engineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works
71500000 - Construction-related services