SOLAS

How to win their contracts

Measured from SOLAS's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 28 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 10 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.3 tenders a month, measured over 57 months of history.
• Half of their 48 awarded contracts are worth €192.6k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, education and training services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Micromail (4), Colaiste De Danann t/a Cenit College (2), Mitchell Kane (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.