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National Development Finance Agency

National Development Finance Agency has published 13 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 17 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 26 August 2025.

Name in source
National Development Finance Agency
Distinct suppliers
17
13
Awards
8 awards with a single named supplier
€936,269,803
Sole-supplier value
€801,002,106 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
5
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

National Development Finance Agency published 13 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2025.

Where the category is recorded, it buys minor building works and civils most often (55% of awards), then professional services (45%).

Its tenders drew a median of 4 bids, and 71% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 442 days from notice to award.

3 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.

What they buy

Awarded value by spend category: €2.2B in one-off contracts across 20 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Minor Building Works and Civils€2.2B · 100%11 awards · 55% of awards
  2. Professional Services€0 · 0%9 awards · 45% of awards · all through frameworks

Works 60%Services 40%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 2 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 64%
  • Framework agreement 27%
  • Direct invitation 9%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 164
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 1613%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 1671%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 1191%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 19442 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 2044 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 373%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
17
New in the last year
0
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
100%
of one-off contract value: Higher Education PPP Bundle 2 Limited, a company registered in Ireland (€935.1M)
Typical contract
€459.6K
median of 5 one-off awards with a value
All 17 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €936,269,803 in awarded value; the largest single award is 100% 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

3 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.

  • Technical advisory services for the Dublin Family Courts PPP Project3 suppliers
    €0
  • NDFA Devolved Schools Building Programme 2 - Project Liffey Site Investigation WorksNorthwest Geotech
    €459.6K
  • NDFA Devolved Schools Building Programme 2 - Project Shannon Site Investigation WorksGeotechnical Environmental Services Limited
    €109.1K

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.

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. –2014
  2. –2015
  3. €544.4K2019
  4. €9.7K2021
  5. –2023
  6. –2024
  7. €935.7M2025

Latest awards

All 13 contracts