Accreditation, learner outcomes and how education services are commissioned
Education and training services are commissioned against a qualification framework more often than against a course description. The buyer names the level and the awarding body it will recognise, and the supplier must hold, or be able to obtain, approved centre status to deliver and certificate it. That approval is not quick, so a bid promising to become accredited after award carries a delivery risk buyers assess sceptically. Where no formal qualification applies, the equivalent gate is a documented curriculum mapped to stated competencies.
Funding rules shape the contract as much as the specification. Publicly funded provision usually carries eligibility criteria for learners, requirements to evidence enrolment, attendance and achievement, and payment released in instalments against those milestones rather than on delivery of teaching. Audit is routine and retrospective: a provider that cannot evidence a learner's eligibility years later repays the funding. Record-keeping is therefore a core capability in this category, not an administrative overhead.
Quality is assessed on outcomes that arrive late. Completion, achievement and progression into work or further study are the measures that matter, and they are reported long after the cohort has left, so contracts increasingly carry improvement plans and rectification provisions rather than simple termination. Practical requirements around learner support, reasonable adjustments for disability, safeguarding where learners are young or vulnerable, and accessible learning materials are specified in detail and inspected, and they are a common reason a technically strong bid is marked down.
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 training & education in Ireland?
GlobalGov holds 860 training & education records from 341 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are The Office Of Government Procurement (62 records); Midas Electronic Systems Skillnet (46 records); Dublin And Dun Laoghaire Education And Training Board (30 records); Kerry Education And Training Board (22 records); Waterford And Wexford Education And Training Board (19 records); Cavan And Monaghan Education And Training Board (18 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 23% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| The Office Of Government Procurement | 62 | 7.2% |
| Midas Electronic Systems Skillnet | 46 | 5.3% |
| Dublin And Dun Laoghaire Education And Training Board | 30 | 3.5% |
| Kerry Education And Training Board | 22 | 2.6% |
| Waterford And Wexford Education And Training Board | 19 | 2.2% |
| Cavan And Monaghan Education And Training Board | 18 | 2.1% |
What are training & education contracts worth in Ireland?
394 of the 860 records publish a contract value. The median is $121,280 and the largest single published value is $13.7M. By size, 149 under $100k, 216 between $100k and $1M, 25 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 466 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.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 149 | 38% |
| between $100k and $1M | 216 | 55% |
| between $1M and $10M | 25 | 6.3% |
| above $10M | 4 | 1.0% |
How long do bidders get to respond to training & education tenders in Ireland?
Across the 728 Ireland training & education notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 21 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 28. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 64 (8.8%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are training & education tenders published in Ireland?
Ireland publishes about 7 notices a month in this category, 89 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 333, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 17 June 2016. May is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does Ireland compare with other training & education markets?
Among the 24 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable training & education market, Ireland ranks 7th by number of records. The largest is Australia (36,707 records against 860 here). Within Ireland itself, training & education is the 6th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Ireland training & education records on this page come from?
These 860 records are collected from 2 official sources: Ireland Etenders (809), TED (51). 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 Training & Education tenders in Ireland
Showing 9 of the 19 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.
Ireland – Education and training services – CA18415 - RFQ REF: 2026/33 NMANDD PEACEPLUS Thriving Together PEACEPLUS 3.2 Creative Cultures After school
Ireland – Education and training services – Innovation Partnership Services
Ireland – Secondary education services – Call for Tender for the Provision of Seafood Educational Development Programme (Primary and Secondary School Level)
Ireland – Personnel-training services – Delivery of a Bespoke Leadership and Management Training Programme for Clinical Specialty Leads
Ireland – Medical equipments – 2025/60 Single Supplier Framework Agreement for the Supply Delivery Installation and Commissioning of Health and Wellbeing Equipment to Louth and Meath Education and Training Board
Ireland – Training services – Heritage Interpretation Advisor for Glenveagh National Park
Ireland – Education and training services – CA18346 - Tender Ref: 54/2026 NMANDD PEACEPLUS Thriving Together 3.6 United through Play and Expression.
Ireland – School books – CL3028DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Schoolbooks incl eBooks to Community and Comprehensive, and Voluntary Secondary Schools (excluding ETB schools) within the Free Education Scheme
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