National Council for Special Education has published 39 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 34 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Ergo, on 3 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 11 June 2026.
Name in source
National Council for Special Education
Distinct suppliers
34
39
Awards
39 awards with a single named supplier
€12,621,608
Sole-supplier value
0
Shared awards
Buyer profile
Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.
National Council for Special Education published 39 contract awards in these records between 2018 and 2026.
Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (33% of awards), then managed services (24%).
By value, most goes on travel and HR services (28% of one-off contract value).
Its tenders drew a median of 2 bids, and 58% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.
Advertised tenders took a median of 116 days from notice to award.
5 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.
What they buy
Awarded value by spend category: €3.1M in one-off contracts across 21 awards with a category recorded.
Travel and HR Services€849.8K · 28%3 awards · 14% of awards
Managed Services€765K · 25%5 awards · 24% of awards
Medical Professional Services€563.8K · 18%2 awards · 10% of awards
Professional Services€473.4K · 15%7 awards · 33% of awards
ICT and office equipment€277.6K · 9%2 awards · 10% of awards
Facilities management and maintenance€140K · 5%2 awards · 10% of awards
Services 100%
Categories are recorded by eTenders. 17 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 55%
Call-off from a framework 24%
Direct invitation 21%
Procurement figures for this buyer
Measure
This buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 21
2
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 21
33%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 21
58%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 34
53%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 21
116 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 21
28 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 68
One-off contracts with a single supplier total €12,544,008 in awarded value; the largest single award is 36% of that. 1 framework agreement is not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.
Contract terms ending in the next 12 months
5 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.
PBF123F-01-002 - PROJ000008999 - SRFT for Accounting Services for the National Council for Special EducationForvis Mazars
€120K
Transformation Partner (Consultant Secondment/Partnership)Ernst and Young
€140K
Evaluation of the NCSE Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Support Model PilotEdge Hill University
€189.5K
Research: Exploring the factors behind the growth in demand for special school and special class placesHIBERNIA COLLEGE UNLIMITED COMPANY
€90K
NCSE Strategic Review and Integration Planning for Future Special Education Support ServicesErnst and Young
€140K
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