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Department of the Taoiseach

Department of the Taoiseach has published 21 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 18 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 16 January 2025.

Name in source
Department of the Taoiseach
Distinct suppliers
18
21
Awards
21 awards with a single named supplier
€90,153,049
Sole-supplier value
0
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

Department of the Taoiseach published 21 contract awards in these records between 2015 and 2025.

Where the category is recorded, it buys managed services most often (62% of awards), then ICT and office equipment (15%).

Its tenders drew a median of 4 bids, and 91% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 44 days from notice to award.

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

What they buy

Awards by spend category, of 13 with a category recorded.

  1. Managed Services8 · 62%
  2. ICT and office equipment2 · 15%
  3. Professional Services1 · 8%
  4. Facilities management and maintenance1 · 8%
  5. Marketing, Print and Stationery1 · 8%

Services 100%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 8 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 57%
  • Direct invitation 29%
  • Call-off from a framework 10%
  • Dynamic purchasing system 5%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 124
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 1225%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 1291%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 2167%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 1244 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 1218 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 492%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
18
Won by the top five
38%
of 21 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
0
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
44%
of one-off contract value: Spark Foundry (€40M)
Typical contract
€512.7K
median of 9 one-off awards with a value
All 18 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €90,153,049 in awarded value; the largest single award is 44% of that. 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.

  • 3102229 ISW023F-1-013 PROJ000009487 Mini-Competition for Microsoft Solution Renewals and Associated Services for Department of the TaoiseachCDW Limited
    €512.7K

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

File lobbying returns 3

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. –2015
  2. –2016
  3. €140K2018
  4. €340K2019
  5. €140.1K2021
  6. €48M2022
  7. €1.5M2024
  8. €40M2025

Latest awards

All 21 contracts