Communications Pr Government Tenders in Ireland

Campaign work, public information and how agencies are actually selected

Communications work for public bodies divides into campaigns with a behavioural objective and continuing communications support, and they are tendered differently. A campaign is scoped around a measurable change -- uptake of a service, awareness of a deadline, a safety behaviour -- with research, creative development, media planning and evaluation as distinct workstreams that may be let to different suppliers. Continuing support is usually a framework with a retained team and a rate card, called off as needs arise.

Selection is normally a two-stage process in which a shortlist responds to a live brief, and the response is judged on strategic insight and creative approach as much as on the finished idea. Buyers increasingly limit the amount of speculative creative work they require, and some pay an honorarium for it, because unlimited free pitching narrows the field to agencies that can afford to lose. Named team continuity is a contractual term for the same reason it is in consulting: the pitch team and the delivery team are expected to be the same people.

Two mechanics are specific to this category. Media buying is usually separated from creative and audited, with the agency required to disclose rebates, volume discounts and any principal trading so that the buyer knows whether it is paying a fee or a margin. And evaluation is contractual: public campaigns are expected to report against defined measures with a pre-agreed baseline, not against impressions delivered. Accessibility of materials, publication in required languages, and clear separation between public information and anything that could be read as political promotion are compliance requirements with real consequences.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys communications pr in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 196 communications pr records from 99 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Office of Public Works (OPW) (8 records); Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (5 records); IDA Ireland (5 records); Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail (5 records); Enterprise Ireland (4 records); Fingal County Council (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 16% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are communications pr contracts worth in Ireland?

143 of the 196 records publish a contract value. The median is $486,000 and the largest single published value is $4.9B. By size, 15 under $100k, 87 between $100k and $1M, 30 between $1M and $10M, 11 above $10M. The remaining 53 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to communications pr tenders in Ireland?

Across the 102 Ireland communications pr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 35 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 39. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (1.0%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are communications pr tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 45 in the last twelve months. Volume is steady against the 49 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 148, spread across 55 separate months of activity since 25 March 2017. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.

How does Ireland compare with other communications pr markets?

Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable communications pr market, Ireland ranks 14th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (6,822 records against 196 here). Within Ireland itself, communications pr is the 25th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Ireland communications pr records on this page come from?

These 196 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (196). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Communications Pr tenders in Ireland

Showing 1 of the 3 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Ireland market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

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