Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in Ireland

Independence, evaluation design and the data a verifier is expected to produce

Monitoring and evaluation is commissioned precisely because the buyer cannot mark its own work, so independence is a structural requirement rather than a preference. Firms that designed or delivered the programme being evaluated are normally excluded, the declaration covers affiliates and named individuals, and the contract usually protects the evaluator's right to report findings the commissioner does not want. A tender that lacks that protection is worth reading twice before bidding.

The technical bid is an evaluation design, and it is judged on whether the design can actually support the claims the commissioner wants to make. Bidders set out the questions, the counterfactual or comparison strategy, sampling, instruments, analysis and the limits of what attribution the design permits. Baseline availability usually determines what is possible: where no baseline was collected, an honest bid says which questions become unanswerable rather than promising a retrospective one.

Third-party monitoring and verification is a distinct sub-market with different requirements. Here the supplier is confirming that reported activity actually happened -- deliveries made, works built, people trained -- often in places the commissioner cannot safely visit. That needs field teams, sampling protocols that resist manipulation, geotagged and timestamped evidence, and a chain of custody for data that would survive challenge. Security, access negotiation and duty of care for field staff are priced obligations, and the reporting cycle is usually frequent and fixed.

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 monitoring evaluation in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 20 monitoring evaluation records from 13 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Health Service Executive (HSE) (3 records); NOW Group (2 records); The High Court of Ireland (2 records); Department of Culture Communications Sport (1 record); Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage (1 record); Department of Justice Home Affairs and Migration (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 50% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are monitoring evaluation contracts worth in Ireland?

14 of the 20 records publish a contract value. The median is $939,600 and the largest single published value is $540.0M. By size, 3 under $100k, 4 between $100k and $1M, 6 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 6 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 monitoring evaluation tenders in Ireland?

Across the 14 Ireland monitoring evaluation notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 23 days. A quarter of them allowed 17 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 35. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.

How often are monitoring evaluation tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland published 17 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 18, spread across 8 separate months of activity since 5 November 2021. March is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 139 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 monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 24 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, Ireland ranks 24th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 20 here). Within Ireland itself, monitoring evaluation is the 65th largest of the 65 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Ireland monitoring evaluation records on this page come from?

These 20 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (20). 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 2026-10-12.

Most recent Monitoring Evaluation 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 monitoring evaluation notice in Ireland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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