Public contract award · eTenders 196992
- 5 suppliers share it
The Child and Family Agency (Tusla) invites tenders to this request for tenders from suitably qualified and experienced Non-Statutory Providers for the provision of Private Foster Care Services
Tusla Child and Family Agency awarded this contract to Five Rivers Ireland Limited, Fostering First (Ireland) Limited, Horizon House / FCI (Sorcha Homes Ltd), Orchard Childrens Service and Origins Foster Care Limited on 17 March 2022, using an open procedure, and 6 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €230,000,000. It names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 36 months, to Mar 2025.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedFive Rivers Ireland LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedFostering First (Ireland) LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedHorizon House / FCI (Sorcha Homes Ltd)Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedOrchard Childrens ServiceNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedOrigins Foster Care LimitedMatched by name and legal form
The notice names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Only 39 of 24,510 contract awards are larger, and number 1 of 84 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
How long does it run?
A published term of 3 years, to Mar 2025.
The term is the notice’s duration counted from the award date. A contract may be extended or end early; the notices do not say.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Open ProcedureAny business could bid.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 6Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 196992eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
- TED notice
- 144188-2022 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
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 196992. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The Child and Family Agency (Tusla) invites tenders to this request for tenders from suitably qualified and experienced Non-Statutory Providers for the provision of Private Foster Care Services", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 196992. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-196992-42726/the-child-and-family-agency-tusla-invites-tenders-to-this. 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.