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Department of Children Disability and Equality

Department of Children Disability and Equality has published 69 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 73 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 10 July 2026.

Name in source
Department of Children Disability and Equality
Distinct suppliers
73
69
Awards
64 awards with a single named supplier
€73,619,339
Sole-supplier value
€515,150,000 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.

Department of Children Disability and Equality published 69 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (36% of awards), then ICT and office equipment (22%).

By value, most goes on facilities management and maintenance (85% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 3 bids, and 63% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 160 days from notice to award.

6 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.

What they buy

Awarded value by spend category: €594.7M in one-off contracts across 77 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Facilities management and maintenance€508.1M · 85%6 awards · 8% of awards
  2. ICT and office equipment€20.7M · 3%17 awards · 22% of awards
  3. Medical Professional Services€18.7M · 3%3 awards · 4% of awards
  4. Travel and HR Services€18.1M · 3%7 awards · 9% of awards
  5. Professional Services€14.7M · 2%28 awards · 36% of awards
  6. Managed Services€14.2M · 2%12 awards · 16% of awards
  7. Fleet and plant€249.3K · under 1%2 awards · 3% of awards
  8. Defence€0 · 0%1 award · 1% of awards · all through frameworks

Also: Marketing, Print and Stationery (1 award)

Services 94%Supplies 5%Works 1%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 14 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 80%
  • Call-off from a framework 15%
  • Framework agreement 4%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 763
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 7618%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 7663%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 7862%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 77160 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 7631 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 1203%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 239%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
73
Won by the top five
23%
of 64 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
11
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
19%
of one-off contract value: Extern Group (€14M)
Typical contract
€285.5K
median of 41 one-off awards with a value
All 73 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €73,549,989 in awarded value. 1 framework agreement is not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.

Contract terms ending in the next 12 months

6 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.

  • PAS122F-11-001- PROJ000009232- MC for Provision of independent analysis and advice to support the determination of system requirements for Childcare Programmes and the new Childcare Agency for DCEDIYPFH TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED
    €302.4K
  • DCEDIY Cyber Security Consultancy and Technical ServicesErnst and Young
    €420.1K
  • The provision of an Evidence Review to Identify International Practices in Special (Secure) Care and Production of Written Research ReportCentre For Effective Services EO
    €80K
  • The Contracting Authority is seeking tenders for the provision of housing support to Persons with Status living in International Protection accomm to progress into independent housing solutions2 suppliers
    €8M
  • The provision of a mapping exercise to identify existing CPD opportunities available to Early Learning and Care (ELC), School-Age Childcare (SAC) and Childminding Sector Services to DCDECrowe
    €63.6K
  • Consultancy Services to carry out a review of the operation of services established by the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022Quality Matters Ltd
    €116.1K

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

Named in a politician’s declared interests 1

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

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