Cybersecurity Government Tenders in Ireland

Assurance, testing and what a security services contract has to prove

Security services are bought as assurance, which means the supplier's own credentials are part of the deliverable. Buyers require certified testers from a recognised scheme for penetration testing, accredited consultancies for risk assessment against a named framework, and evidence that the supplier's own environment meets at least the standard it is being engaged to assess. A firm that cannot evidence its own information security management is a poor advertisement for the advice it is selling, and evaluations increasingly say so explicitly.

Scope definition is the contractual heart of testing work and the commonest source of dispute. Rules of engagement set out which systems are in scope, which techniques are permitted, what happens when a critical finding is discovered mid-test, out-of-hours windows, and the authorisation that makes otherwise unlawful activity lawful. Testing against systems hosted by a third party requires that party's written permission, which is a lead time bidders should assume rather than discover.

Monitored services -- detection and response delivered continuously -- are a different commercial animal from assessment. They are priced by volume of telemetry or by assets covered, and the terms that matter are coverage hours, time to detect and time to respond by severity, who is authorised to take containment action on the buyer's systems, and how incident evidence is preserved for later investigation. Clearance for analysts, the location of the operations centre, and data residency for logs are usually fixed by the buyer rather than proposed, and the exit terms should leave the buyer holding its own detection content.

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 cybersecurity in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 72 cybersecurity records from 31 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are The Office Of Government Procurement (10 records); Foras na Gaeilge (3 records); Cork City Council (2 records); Marine Institute (2 records); Meath County Council (2 records); Munster Technological University. (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 29% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are cybersecurity contracts worth in Ireland?

42 of the 72 records publish a contract value. The median is $237,190 and the largest single published value is $189.0M. By size, 7 under $100k, 28 between $100k and $1M, 6 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 30 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 cybersecurity tenders in Ireland?

Across the 37 Ireland cybersecurity notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 24 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 31. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 1 (2.7%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are cybersecurity tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland published 16 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 34, spread across 24 separate months of activity since 13 October 2021. June is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 8 June 2026, 115 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 cybersecurity markets?

Among the 21 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable cybersecurity market, Ireland ranks 12th by number of records. The largest is France (420 records against 72 here). Within Ireland itself, cybersecurity is the 49th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

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

These 72 records are collected from 3 official sources: Ireland Etenders (43), TED (28), 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.

Most recent Cybersecurity tenders in Ireland

None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical cybersecurity notice in Ireland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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