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National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)

National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) has published 16 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 32 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Eversheds Sutherland, on 2 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 7 October 2026.

Name in source
National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)
Distinct suppliers
32
16
Awards
15 awards with a single named supplier
€3,688,214
Sole-supplier value
€500,000 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
1
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) published 16 contract awards in these records between 2017 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (48% of awards), then managed services (20%).

By value, most goes on managed services (39% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 2 bids, and 63% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 182 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: €10M in one-off contracts across 25 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Managed Services€3.9M · 39%5 awards · 20% of awards
  2. Professional Services€3.5M · 35%12 awards · 48% of awards
  3. ICT and office equipment€1.9M · 19%4 awards · 16% of awards
  4. Facilities management and maintenance€587.4K · 6%1 award · 4% of awards
  5. Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment€90K · 1%1 award · 4% of awards
  6. Fleet and plant€0 · 0%1 award · 4% of awards · all through frameworks
  7. Medical Professional Services€0 · 0%1 award · 4% of awards · all through frameworks

Services 87%Supplies 13%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 12 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 84%
  • Direct invitation 16%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 312
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 3139%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 3163%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 1553%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 31182 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 3141 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 12312%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
32
Won by the top five
40%
of 15 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
2
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
38%
of one-off contract value: G. M. G. MECHANICAL SERVICES LIMITED (€1.4M)
Typical contract
€233K
median of 10 one-off awards with a value
All 32 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €3,688,214 in awarded value; the largest single award is 38% of that. 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.

  • NSAI - provision of a strategy development, co-ordination and support serviceGrant Thornton
    €110K
  • NSAI - CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CONFIGURATION, SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE AND RELATED SERVICESTEKENABLE LIMITED
    €700K
  • NSAI - CONCRETE BLOCK STEERING GROUP CONSULTANTS PANEL - 2023IGSL LIMITED
    €0

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

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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. –2017
  2. €536K2019
  3. €347.2K2020
  4. €360K2021
  5. €700K2024
  6. €360K2025
  7. €1.4M2026

Latest awards

All 16 contracts