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Children's Health Ireland (CHI)

Children's Health Ireland (CHI) has published 27 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 50 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is BrainLab Ltd_144891, on 2 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 31 August 2026.

Name in source
Children's Health Ireland (CHI)
Distinct suppliers
50
27
Awards
22 awards with a single named supplier
€113,606,354
Sole-supplier value
€29,750,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
5
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

Children's Health Ireland (CHI) published 27 contract awards in these records between 2023 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys ICT and office equipment most often (24% of awards), then medical and diagnostic equipment and supplies (19%).

By value, most goes on facilities management and maintenance (86% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 2 bids, and 71% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 158 days from notice to award.

1 published contract term ends in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.

What they buy

Awarded value by spend category: €102.4M in one-off contracts across 21 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Facilities management and maintenance€88.5M · 86%2 awards · 10% of awards
  2. Medical and Diagnostic Equipment and Supplies€5.1M · 5%4 awards · 19% of awards
  3. Minor Building Works and Civils€2.6M · 3%2 awards · 10% of awards
  4. ICT and office equipment€2.2M · 2%5 awards · 24% of awards
  5. Professional Services€2.2M · 2%1 award · 5% of awards
  6. Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment€801.4K · 1%3 awards · 14% of awards
  7. Medical, Surgical and Pharmaceutical Supplies€725K · 1%2 awards · 10% of awards
  8. Medical Professional Services€206K · under 1%1 award · 5% of awards

Also: Managed Services (1 award)

Supplies 48%Services 38%Works 14%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 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 90%
  • Framework agreement 10%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 192
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 1937%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 1971%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 21158 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 2138 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 744%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
50
Won by the top five
27%
of 22 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
30
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
78%
of one-off contract value: DERRY COURT COMPANY LIMITED (€88.5M)
Typical contract
€910K
median of 19 one-off awards with a value
All 50 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €113,606,354 in awarded value; the largest single award is 78% of that. 4 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.

Contract terms ending in the next 12 months

1 award whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.

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.

Suppliers that appear in other public records

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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

  1. €593.8K2023
  2. €92.3M2025
  3. €20.7M2026

Awards by year

sole supplier shared

  1. 62023
  2. 72025
  3. 142026

Latest awards

All 27 contracts