Ict Equipment Government Tenders in Ireland

Catalogue frameworks, refresh cycles and what happens to the old kit

ICT hardware is bought through catalogue frameworks far more often than through one-off competitions, because the products change faster than a procurement cycle. A framework fixes the supplier, the terms and a discount structure, and the catalogue is refreshed during the term as models are superseded. The consequence for bidders is that the competition is won on the mechanism -- discount off a published price list, the commitment to substitute equivalent or better as models retire -- rather than on the specification of any single device.

Minimum technical specifications are stated as a floor, not a target, and the terms that differentiate bids sit around the device. Warranty length and whether it is return-to-base or on-site with a next-business-day engineer, the availability of spares for the stated support period, and energy efficiency and environmental certification are all scored. For volume rollouts, buyers frequently require imaging with their own build, asset tagging and registration, staged delivery to named sites and installation at the desk rather than delivery to a loading bay.

The obligation bidders most often underprice is at the other end of the life cycle. Taking away displaced equipment, erasing or destroying the data on it to a recognised standard with certificates issued per asset, and disposing of or refurbishing it under electrical waste rules is normally the supplier's responsibility, and the residual value of what is collected is increasingly required to be credited back to the buyer rather than kept. A bid that prices the new hardware and not the removal of the old is incomplete against the specification it is answering.

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 ict equipment in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 178 ict equipment records from 107 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Education Procurement Service (EPS) (9 records); Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail (6 records); Office of the Revenue Commissioners (6 records); Children Health Ireland (CHI) (5 records); Dublin City Council (4 records); Office of the Revenue Commissioners_366 (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 19% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are ict equipment contracts worth in Ireland?

150 of the 178 records publish a contract value. The median is $540,000 and the largest single published value is $291.6M. By size, 9 under $100k, 83 between $100k and $1M, 45 between $1M and $10M, 13 above $10M. The remaining 28 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 ict equipment tenders in Ireland?

Across the 52 Ireland ict equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 days. A quarter of them allowed 31 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 41. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 2 (3.8%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are ict equipment tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland published 7 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 62, spread across 50 separate months of activity since 28 June 2021. September is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 25 May 2026, 129 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 ict equipment markets?

Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ict equipment market, Ireland ranks 24th by number of records. The largest is Poland (5,761 records against 178 here). Within Ireland itself, ict equipment is the 26th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Ireland ict equipment records on this page come from?

These 178 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (178). 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 Ict Equipment 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 ict equipment notice in Ireland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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