This Qualification System will be designed to allow for the assembly of a multi-supplier Specialised Construction Services Qualification System for competent entities with capabilities in one or more of the 7 lots. For each of the 7 lots in scope, each Qualified Applicant will be required to have the competence to carry out the relevant services within or in the vicinity of a live gas environment, including within hazardous or potentially hazardous areas (atex zones 0 to 3).

The Specialised Construction Services Qualification Panel will be used to supervise works on the gas transmission (Tx) and distribution (Dx) networks owned and/or operated by Gas Networks Ireland and its subsidiary GNI (UK) Ltd in Ireland, Northern Ireland and in Scotland as the case may be. 

The panel will be divided into 7 lots as follows:

Provision of Specialised Construction Services 

Lot 1- Site Supervision General Pipeline Engineering (Tx).

Lot 2 – Mechanical Supervision (incl Welding Inspection & Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)) (Tx).

Lot 3 – Painting Coating Inspection (New Build and Maintenance) (Tx).

Lot 4 – Site Supervision Civils – Excavation, Backfill and Reinstatement (Tx & Dx).

Lot 5 – Site Supervision (Dx).

Lot 6 – Site Safety Inspector (Tx & Dx).

Lot 7 -  Senior Mechanical Quality Co-ordinator  (incl Welding, Materials & Non-Destructive Testing (NDT))(Tx)