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National Museum of Ireland

National Museum of Ireland has published 33 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 52 distinct suppliers. The latest award is dated 15 June 2026.

Name in source
National Museum of Ireland
Distinct suppliers
52
33
Awards
26 awards with a single named supplier
€18,613,412
Sole-supplier value
€464,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
7
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

National Museum of Ireland published 33 contract awards in these records between 2020 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys managed services most often (27% of awards), then facilities management and maintenance (25%).

By value, most goes on laboratory, diagnostics and equipment (79% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 4 bids, and 81% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 200 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: €605K in one-off contracts across 44 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment€480K · 79%1 award · 2% of awards
  2. Medical and Diagnostic Equipment and Supplies€125K · 21%1 award · 2% of awards
  3. Managed Services€0 · 0%12 awards · 27% of awards · all through frameworks
  4. Facilities management and maintenance€0 · 0%11 awards · 25% of awards · all through frameworks
  5. Travel and HR Services€0 · 0%10 awards · 23% of awards · all through frameworks
  6. ICT and office equipment€0 · 0%5 awards · 11% of awards · all through frameworks
  7. Professional Services€0 · 0%3 awards · 7% of awards · all through frameworks
  8. Defence€0 · 0%1 award · 2% of awards · all through frameworks

Services 77%Supplies 23%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 9 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.

  • Framework agreement 62%
  • One-off tender 21%
  • Direct invitation 9%
  • Call-off from a framework 8%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 424
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 4210%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 4281%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 3281%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 44200 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 4432 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 920%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 150%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
52
Won by the top five
31%
of 26 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
8
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
47%
of one-off contract value: Forvis Mazars (€1M)
Typical contract
€120K
median of 9 one-off awards with a value
All 52 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €2,160,000 in awarded value; the largest single award is 32% of that. 19 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.

  • Single Stage Procedure with Negotiation, as a Title III for the Provision of Exhibition Development, Build, Setworks, and Audio Visual and Fitout for Irish Pavilion at EXPO Osaka 2025JACK RESTAN DISPLAYS LIMITEDFramework
    €2M
  • NMI/2023/15 Provision of Visitor Audience Survey ServicesCONTEXT STUDIO LIMITEDFramework
    €500K

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. €540K2020
  2. €320K2021
  3. –2023
  4. €400K2024
  5. €900K2025
  6. –2026

Latest awards

All 33 contracts