Public Appointments Service: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Public Appointments Service has published 24 tenders in Ireland.

Its buying spans 5 CPV divisions, most often administration, defence and social security services.

Across 8 awarded contracts the median value is €140k.

Its published awards total €2m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Public Appointments Service's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 21 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 22 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.2 tenders a month, measured over 118 months of history.
Half of their 8 awarded contracts are worth €140k 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, postal and telecommunications services.
Their most frequent suppliers are Sova Assessment (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Executive Search Services for Appointments to the Boards of ...	Odgers Berndtson	19 March 2025	€480k
Online Psychometric Tests with Remote Proctoring, for Recrui...	Sova Assessment	5 March 2025	€140k
The provision of an Online Occupational Personality Assessme...	SHL Group Ltd	27 March 2024	€27.5k
The provision of Senior in-depth Assessment for Appointments...	Organisation Development and Research Ltd	22 September 2023	€1m
Cloud (SaaS) Surveying Platform with Training and Customer S...	Qualtrics LLC	31 August 2023	€72.4k
Online Psychometric Tests & Hosting of Multi-method SJT with...	Sova Assessment	8 August 2022	€140k