The Department of Enterprise Tourism and Employment

How to win their contracts

Measured from The Department of Enterprise Tourism and Employment's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 32 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 64 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.1 tenders a month, measured over 66 months of history.
• Half of their 49 awarded contracts are worth €137.5k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, research and development services and related consultancy services.
• Their most frequent suppliers are KPMG (4), Micromail (2), eircom Limited (t/a eir business) (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.