Dublin City University

How to win their contracts

Measured from Dublin City University's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 25 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 75 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.0 tenders a month, measured over 80 months of history.
• Half of their 53 awarded contracts are worth €198k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses), it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Murcom building services (4), Virtuoso Learning Ltd (2), COSMED Srl (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.