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The Heritage Council

The Heritage Council has published 74 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 57 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is Abarta Heritage, on 5 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 20 May 2026.

Name in source
The Heritage Council
Distinct suppliers
57
74
Awards
73 awards with a single named supplier
€5,274,778
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.

The Heritage Council published 74 contract awards in these records between 2014 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys professional services most often (30% of awards), then managed services (27%).

By value, most goes on facilities management and maintenance (37% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 2.5 bids, and 89% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 156 days from notice to award.

1 published contract term ends in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.

What they buy

Awarded value by spend category: €2.7M in one-off contracts across 63 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Facilities management and maintenance€1M · 37%1 award · 2% of awards
  2. ICT and office equipment€966K · 36%12 awards · 19% of awards
  3. Professional Services€419.9K · 16%19 awards · 30% of awards
  4. Managed Services€259.4K · 10%17 awards · 27% of awards
  5. Minor Building Works and Civils€42.8K · 2%5 awards · 8% of awards
  6. Travel and HR Services€0 · 0%3 awards · 5% of awards · all through frameworks
  7. Veterinary & Farming€0 · 0%2 awards · 3% of awards · all through frameworks
  8. Marketing, Print and Stationery€0 · 0%2 awards · 3% of awards · all through frameworks

Also: Fleet and plant (1 award), Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment (1 award)

Services 97%Works 3%

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 83%
  • Simplified procedure 13%
  • Call-off from a framework 3%
  • Dynamic purchasing system 1%
  • Direct invitation 1%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 642.5
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 6420%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 6489%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 7289%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 66156 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 6428 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 902%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 1631%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
57
Won by the top five
25%
of 73 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
4
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
34%
of one-off contract value: HAPPY MARKETING & MEDIA LIMITED (€1.8M)
Typical contract
€79.3K
median of 29 one-off awards with a value
All 57 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €5,274,778 in awarded value; the largest single award is 34% of that. Awarded value is not money paid.

Contract terms ending in the next 12 months

1 award whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.

  • Analysis of labour market demand for traditional craftspeople in the built heritage sector in IrelandCrowe
    €42.8K

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 1

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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