Public contract award · TED 1479-2025
- Framework agreement
- 5 suppliers share it
Framework- Consultants to Support the Management of the Civil Society Fund
Department of Foreign Affairs/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha awarded this contract to Hornbill Consultants Limited, Ciara Loughney, Southern Cross Consulting Limited, Gumfoot Consultancy Limited and Gdsi Limited on 2 January 2025, using an open procedure, and 9 bids were received. The notice publishes €420,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Jan 2029.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedHornbill Consultants LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedCiara LoughneyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedSouthern Cross Consulting LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedGumfoot Consultancy LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedGdsi LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How long does it run?
A published term of 4 years, to Jan 2029.
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
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 9Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Development consultancy services
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 4112131eTenders' 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
- 1479-2025 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
Check it yourself
The official records this page is built from.
- TED contract award notice 1479-2025 (opens in a new tab)
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 4112131. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Framework- Consultants to Support the Management of the Civil Society Fund", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 1479-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-1479-2025/framework-consultants-to-support-the-management-of-the. 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.