Department of Education and Youth

How to win their contracts

Measured from Department of Education and Youth's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 33 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 65 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.5 tenders a month, measured over 82 months of history.
• Half of their 76 awarded contracts are worth €259.2k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, construction work, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are EDU-Relate (4), O'Connor Sutton Cronin (3), Hayes Higgins Partnership (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.