Department of Children Disability and Equality

How to win their contracts

Measured from Department of Children Disability and Equality's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 31 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 12 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.1 tenders a month, measured over 58 months of history.
• Half of their 33 awarded contracts are worth €410k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in research and development services and related consultancy services, education and training services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Ernst and Young (4), Open Sky Data Systems (3), IT Alliance Group (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.