Research and Studies Government Tenders in Ireland

Commissioned studies, methodology scoring and the right to publish

A commissioned study is bought for a decision the buyer has to make, and the tender usually states the decision. That matters because the strongest bids answer the decision rather than the question as written: they say what the study can and cannot establish, what the sample will support, and where the evidence will remain thin. Evaluation in this category is weighted heavily toward methodology, and a proposal that claims certainty the method cannot deliver is scored down by any competent panel.

The practical constraints are access and ethics. Studies that involve interviews, survey respondents or administrative data need approvals before fieldwork begins, and the timetable for those approvals is frequently longer than the fieldwork itself. Data protection obligations govern how personal data is collected, stored, anonymised and destroyed, and the contract normally names the roles of each party in handling it. A bid whose programme starts fieldwork immediately after award has usually not accounted for this.

Ownership and publication are negotiated terms with real consequences. Public buyers commonly take ownership of the report and the underlying data, reserve the right to publish, and require the raw data and code in a reusable form so the analysis can be reproduced. Researchers often want the right to publish independently, and the compromise is usually a delay period rather than a veto. Bidders should also read the clause on findings the buyer dislikes: the credible contracts protect the researcher's conclusions explicitly, and the absence of that protection tells you something about the commission.

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 research and studies in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 56 research and studies records from 28 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage (4 records); The High Court of Ireland (4 records); Office of Public Works (OPW) (3 records); Depaul_158465 (2 records); Health Service Executive (HSE) (2 records); The Land Development Agency (2 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 30% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are research and studies contracts worth in Ireland?

37 of the 56 records publish a contract value. The median is $226,800 and the largest single published value is $162.0M. By size, 14 under $100k, 13 between $100k and $1M, 4 between $1M and $10M, 6 above $10M. The remaining 19 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 research and studies tenders in Ireland?

Across the 27 Ireland research and studies notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 31 days. A quarter of them allowed 18 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 36. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 4 (15%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are research and studies tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland publishes about 4 notices a month in this category, 46 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 49, spread across 16 separate months of activity since 1 September 2020. 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 research and studies markets?

Among the 25 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable research and studies market, Ireland ranks 16th by number of records. The largest is France (1,079 records against 56 here). Within Ireland itself, research and studies is the 53rd largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Ireland research and studies records on this page come from?

These 56 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (56). 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 Research and Studies 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 research and studies notice in Ireland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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