Educational Research Centre has published 25 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 24 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 8 July 2026.
Name in source
Educational Research Centre
Distinct suppliers
24
25
Awards
23 awards with a single named supplier
€7,304,519
Sole-supplier value
€350,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
2
Shared awards
Buyer profile
Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.
Educational Research Centre published 25 contract awards in these records between 2015 and 2026.
Where the category is recorded, it buys ICT and office equipment most often (68% of awards), then managed services (16%).
Its tenders drew a median of 4 bids, and 92% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.
Advertised tenders took a median of 93 days from notice to award.
2 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.
What they buy
Awarded value by spend category: €2.7M in one-off contracts across 19 awards with a category recorded.
ICT and office equipment€1.5M · 55%13 awards · 68% of awards
Managed Services€907K · 34%3 awards · 16% of awards
Professional Services€300K · 11%2 awards · 11% of awards
Marketing, Print and Stationery€0 · 0%1 award · 5% of awards · all through frameworks
Services 68%Supplies 32%
Categories are recorded by eTenders. 10 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 45%
Framework agreement 21%
Direct invitation 17%
Call-off from a framework 10%
Simplified procedure 7%
Procurement figures for this buyer
Measure
This buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 17
4
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 17
24%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 17
92%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 24
92%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 19
93 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 18
29 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 41
One-off contracts with a single supplier total €3,599,519 in awarded value; the largest single award is 30% of that. 6 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.
Contract terms ending in the next 12 months
2 awards 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.
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