Consulting Government Tenders in Ireland

Reading a general consulting notice before deciding whether to bid

Consulting notices that carry no further qualifier are the hardest in public procurement to assess, because the heading covers advisory work, programme delivery support, technical specialism and interim resource, which are four different businesses. The first task with any such notice is to find the deliverable: a report, a decision, a delivered change or a set of people on a rate card. Bidders who skip that step commonly price a study against terms written for a staffing arrangement, or the reverse.

Whatever the flavour, the evaluation structure is consistent. Technical quality is weighted above price more often than in goods procurement; the proposed method and the named individuals carry most of the score; and references are checked against comparable assignments rather than comparable clients. Frameworks and panels dominate access, so a significant share of the real competition happens at call-off stage, after the visible notice, between suppliers who are already admitted.

The terms that repay careful reading are about independence, substitution and what is left behind. Conflict of interest rules frequently bar the adviser from the implementation that follows. Key personnel clauses bind the supplier to the people it scored on. And knowledge transfer obligations -- documented handover, transfer of models and materials, a defined exit -- determine whether the buyer ends up with a capability or a dependency. Public buyers have become markedly stricter on all three, and bids that treat them as boilerplate are the ones that lose on technical score for reasons they never see.

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 consulting in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 670 consulting records from 187 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are The Office Of Government Procurement (134 records); Department Of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth (49 records); Health Service Executive (hse) (23 records); Louth County Council (22 records); Mayo County Council (15 records); Department Of Foreign Affairs And Trade/an Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha Agus Trádála (14 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 38% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are consulting contracts worth in Ireland?

291 of the 670 records publish a contract value. The median is $140,028 and the largest single published value is $53.6M. By size, 105 under $100k, 155 between $100k and $1M, 28 between $1M and $10M, 3 above $10M. The remaining 379 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 consulting tenders in Ireland?

Across the 390 Ireland consulting notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 28 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 32. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 6 (1.5%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are consulting tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 49 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 163, spread across 51 separate months of activity since 16 November 2016. November is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.

How does Ireland compare with other consulting markets?

Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable consulting market, Ireland ranks 5th by number of records. The largest is Australia (24,392 records against 670 here). Within Ireland itself, consulting is the 9th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Ireland consulting records on this page come from?

These 670 records are collected from 3 official sources: Ireland Etenders (648), TED (21), the Kenya PPRA (1). 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 Consulting tenders in Ireland

Showing 2 of the 2 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.

Other procurement categories in Ireland

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