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State Examinations Commission

State Examinations Commission has published 19 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 19 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Mazars, on 2 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 12 January 2026.

Name in source
State Examinations Commission
Distinct suppliers
19
19
Awards
18 awards with a single named supplier
€3,679,995
Sole-supplier value
€0 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.

State Examinations Commission published 19 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys ICT and office equipment most often (38% of awards), then marketing, print and stationery (31%).

Its tenders drew a median of 2 bids, and 87% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 171 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: €13.5M in one-off contracts across 13 awards with a category recorded.

  1. ICT and office equipment€13.1M · 97%5 awards · 38% of awards
  2. Travel and HR Services€223.2K · 2%1 award · 8% of awards
  3. Professional Services€100K · 1%1 award · 8% of awards
  4. Marketing, Print and Stationery€80K · 1%4 awards · 31% of awards
  5. Managed Services€0 · 0%2 awards · 15% of awards · all through frameworks

Services 62%Supplies 38%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 8 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 57%
  • Direct invitation 24%
  • Call-off from a framework 14%
  • Dynamic purchasing system 5%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 112
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 1127%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 1187%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 1974%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 12171 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 1232 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 552%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
19
Won by the top five
33%
of 18 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
4
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
23%
of one-off contract value: COMBINED MEDIA COMPANY LIMITED (€830K)
Typical contract
€176K
median of 14 one-off awards with a value
All 19 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €3,679,995 in awarded value. 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.

  • IPS016F-03-001-PROJ000009970: Mini Competition for the provision of 1x Senior Oracle Database Systems Administrator for State Examinations CommissionNUCLEO CONSULTING LIMITED
    €37.5K
  • Request for Tender for the provision of services for research on the use of generative AI in the context of teacher-based and external central assessment for high-stakes certification of achievements.University of Limerick
    €100K

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

Latest awards

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