Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála

How to win their contracts

Measured from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála'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 21 of their tenders.
• They publish about 2.0 tenders a month, measured over 60 months of history.
• Half of their 49 awarded contracts are worth €240k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in administration, defence and social security services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support.
• Their most frequent suppliers are IOD PARC (trading name of International Organisation Development Ltd.) (4), Gumfoot Consultancy Limited (3), Moore MacDonald and Partners Ltd (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.