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 35 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 6 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.5 tenders a month, measured over 59 months of history.
• Half of their 60 awarded contracts are worth €177.8k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in construction work, architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are O'Connor Sutton Cronin (3), Hayes Higgins Partnership (3), Version1 Software Limited (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.