Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM ) has published 376 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 259 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Verifact International Limited, on 10 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 31 August 2026.
€2,320,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
9
Shared awards
Buyer profile
Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.
Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM ) published 376 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2026.
Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (20% of awards), then ICT and office equipment (20%).
By value, most goes on ICT and office equipment (25% of one-off contract value).
Its tenders drew a median of 2 bids, and 81% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.
Advertised tenders took a median of 145 days from notice to award.
9 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.
What they buy
Awarded value by spend category: €25.3M in one-off contracts across 343 awards with a category recorded.
ICT and office equipment€6.4M · 25%67 awards · 20% of awards
Professional Services€5.3M · 21%70 awards · 20% of awards
Veterinary & Farming€4.6M · 18%51 awards · 15% of awards
Fleet and plant€3.9M · 16%44 awards · 13% of awards
Travel and HR Services€2.6M · 10%19 awards · 6% of awards
Facilities management and maintenance€1.4M · 5%22 awards · 6% of awards
Managed Services€1M · 4%47 awards · 14% of awards
Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment€60.9K · under 1%4 awards · 1% of awards
Also: Minor Building Works and Civils (8 awards), Marketing, Print and Stationery (4 awards), Defence (4 awards), Medical, Surgical and Pharmaceutical Supplies (2 awards), Plant Hire (1 award)
Services 81%Supplies 18%Works 1%
Categories are recorded by eTenders. 30 awards have none and are not counted. Values are awarded values, not money paid, and leave out framework agreements, which publish a ceiling rather than a contract value.
How they buy
How each award was competed.
One-off tender 93%
Direct invitation 3%
Framework agreement 2%
Call-off from a framework 2%
Procurement figures for this buyer
Measure
This buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 353
2
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 353
38%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 353
81%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 350
84%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 356
145 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 353
21 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 440
2%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 57
One-off contracts with a single supplier total €32,797,836 in awarded value. 22 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.
Contract terms ending in the next 12 months
9 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later; the first 8 are shown.
Seafood Assurance Pathway Programme and Framework DevelopmentRS StandardsFramework
Call for Tender for the Provision of an Updated Vessel Efficiency Guide and Climate Action Demonstrator Project Scoping ReportSYNERGY ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED
Call for Tender for the provision of Microsoft Dynamics NAV Support and MaintenanceSysco Software Solutions
€110K
Call for Tender for the provision of Support Services for a Fisheries and Aquaculture Gear Extended Producer Responsibility SchemeFOSTER ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED
End dates add the published duration to the award date. Contracts can be extended, ended early or renewed without a new notice, so this is a guide to when work may come back to market, not a schedule.
These suppliers are CRO companies that won at least one award from this buyer and also appear in the Register of Lobbying or a Register of Members’ Interests. Appearing in both does not mean an award was influenced. Open each company to see the records and how they were matched.
Sources: the OGP / eTenders open data file, published 7 Aug 2026, and TED contract award notices. Categories, bids, SME and timing figures come from eTenders only. About the sources
Value awarded by year
One-off contracts with a sole supplier; frameworks left out