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Higher Education Authority

Higher Education Authority has published 44 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 42 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Crowleys DFK Limited, on 3 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 7 October 2026.

Name in source
Higher Education Authority
Distinct suppliers
42
44
Awards
42 awards with a single named supplier
€5,231,122
Sole-supplier value
€3,200,000 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.

Higher Education Authority published 44 contract awards in these records between 2019 and 2026.

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

How they buy

How each award was competed.

  • Direct invitation 100%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 1486%
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 810%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
42
Won by the top five
21%
of 42 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
15
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
10%
of one-off contract value: Mazars (€503.8K)
Typical contract
€50K
median of 41 one-off awards with a value

Newest suppliers

All 42 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €5,181,122 in awarded value. 3 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. 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.

  • Request for The provision of Communications and Public Relations Services for Strategic Marketing of the MicroCreds.ie Portal and the Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy in 2026BIG "O" LIMITED
    €90K

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 2

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. €774.4K2019
  2. €1.2M2020
  3. €216K2021
  4. €239.5K2023
  5. €436K2024
  6. €959.8K2025
  7. €1.3M2026

Latest awards

All 44 contracts