Health Service Executive (HSE) has published 964 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 1563 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Ernst & Young, on 19 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 9 October 2026.
Name in source
Health Service Executive (HSE)
Distinct suppliers
1563
964
Awards
778 awards with a single named supplier
€4,241,758,401
Sole-supplier value
€8,665,583,420 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
186
Shared awards
Buyer profile
Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.
Health Service Executive (HSE) published 964 contract awards in these records between 2013 and 2026.
Where the category is recorded, it buys medical and diagnostic equipment and supplies most often (19% of awards), then medical professional services (16%).
By value, most goes on medical professional services (25% of one-off contract value).
Its tenders drew a median of 4 bids, and 79% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.
Advertised tenders took a median of 223 days from notice to award.
58 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.
What they buy
Awarded value by spend category: €3.9B in one-off contracts across 787 awards with a category recorded.
Medical Professional Services€970.5M · 25%127 awards · 16% of awards
Minor Building Works and Civils€923.1M · 24%73 awards · 9% of awards
Managed Services€869.3M · 23%36 awards · 5% of awards
ICT and office equipment€473.3M · 12%108 awards · 14% of awards
Medical and Diagnostic Equipment and Supplies€166M · 4%152 awards · 19% of awards
Facilities management and maintenance€102.4M · 3%44 awards · 6% of awards
Travel and HR Services€92.1M · 2%55 awards · 7% of awards
Professional Services€79.1M · 2%78 awards · 10% of awards
Also: Medical, Surgical and Pharmaceutical Supplies (€58.7M), Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment (€57.5M), Veterinary & Farming (€38M), Fleet and plant (€26.7M), Utilities (€2M), Marketing, Print and Stationery (€1.4M), Defence (€250K)
Services 47%Supplies 40%Works 9%Work Related Services 3%
Categories are recorded by eTenders. 307 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 48%
Direct invitation 17%
Framework agreement 14%
Dynamic purchasing system 11%
Call-off from a framework 6%
Simplified procedure 4%
Dynamic purchasing system <1%
Procurement figures for this buyer
Measure
This buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 628
4
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 628
16%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 628
79%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 808
68%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 669
223 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 650
34 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 2,667
4%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 258
One-off contracts with a single supplier total €1,841,457,870 in awarded value. 152 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.
Contract terms ending in the next 12 months
58 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later; the first 8 are shown.
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