Northern Ireland Assembly Commission

How to win their contracts

Measured from Northern Ireland Assembly Commission'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 9 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.7 tenders a month, measured over 42 months of history.
• Half of their 4 awarded contracts are worth £191.1k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in software package and information systems, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Elcom Systems Ltd. (3), Microsoft Limited (3), System Crew (Switzerland) GmbH (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.