Public contract award · eTenders 160789
- 3 suppliers share it
The Provision of Temporary Agency Staff for the Higher Education Authority
Office of Government Procurement (3) awarded this contract to Collins McNicholas Recruitment and HR Services Group, Gilligan Black Recruitment Limited and Hartley People Limited on 27 January 2020, using an open procedure, and 14 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €150,000. It names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published.
- Award published
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedCollins McNicholas Recruitment and HR Services GroupNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedGilligan Black Recruitment LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedHartley People LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 43% of contract awards, and number 8 of 33 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Open ProcedureAny business could bid.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 14Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 160789eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
Check it yourself
The official record this page is built from.
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 160789. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The Provision of Temporary Agency Staff for the Higher Education Authority", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 160789. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-160789-56738/the-provision-of-temporary-agency-staff-for-the-higher. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
Published records, not allegations. An award shows who a public body chose to buy from, as it published; it is not a payment and says nothing about how the supplier was chosen beyond what the notice states.