Department of Health has published 90 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 70 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Crowe, on 8 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 28 July 2026.
Name in source
Department of Health
Distinct suppliers
70
90
Awards
87 awards with a single named supplier
€26,285,133
Sole-supplier value
€230,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
3
Shared awards
Buyer profile
Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.
Department of Health published 90 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2026.
Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (46% of awards), then ICT and office equipment (31%).
Its tenders drew a median of 3 bids, and 59% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.
Advertised tenders took a median of 124 days from notice to award.
3 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.
What they buy
Awarded value by spend category: €12.9M in one-off contracts across 48 awards with a category recorded.
Professional Services€5.3M · 41%22 awards · 46% of awards
Medical Professional Services€3.8M · 30%3 awards · 6% of awards
ICT and office equipment€1.9M · 15%15 awards · 31% of awards
Managed Services€1.8M · 14%7 awards · 15% of awards
Travel and HR Services€50.4K · under 1%1 award · 2% of awards
Services 96%Supplies 4%
Categories are recorded by eTenders. 48 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 47%
Direct invitation 36%
Call-off from a framework 11%
Dynamic purchasing system 2%
Simplified procedure 2%
Framework agreement 1%
Procurement figures for this buyer
Measure
This buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 43
3
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 43
26%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 43
59%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 86
50%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 46
124 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 45
34 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 150
4%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 18
One-off contracts with a single supplier total €25,578,195 in awarded value. 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
3 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.
Development of Healthy Workplace Support Service to drive implementation of the National Healthy Workplace FrameworkReal NationFramework
€396.9K
RFT for Evaluation of the National Children’s Palliative Care Policy (2009) for Department of HealthVeronica Lambert
€125.4K
PBF123F-04-091 PROJ000010745 SRFT for Audit Services for the Department of HealthRSM Ireland
€150K
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