Department of Finance Tenders & Contract Awards
What Department of Finance buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Department of Finance has nothing open for bidding today. Its last notice closed on 28 August 2026. 4 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Department of Finance has awarded 30 contracts totalling €6.8M between 2013 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is PWC (2 awards).
Its three largest suppliers hold 18% of the disclosed value. 5 companies have won here in more than one year. 7 of the 28 awards with a published bid count drew a single bidder.
Public buyers rarely change supplier mid-contract. The opening is usually a new requirement, not a switch.
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Open now
4
Tender notices tracked
30
Contract awards
€6.8M
Disclosed value
€423k
Average per award
22
With named winner
Department of Finance
| Contracting Authority | Department of Finance · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | PWC · Xerox (UK) Ltd |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | Xerox IBS Limited · Gordon MRM · AandL Goodbody LLP |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Last tender closed on 28 August 2026. New notices publish daily. Set up an alert below or check back tomorrow.
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Request to Tender for appointment to a Multi-Party Framework for the provision of legal services to the Minister for Finance.
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Waste Management Services - Department of Finance
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Awarded in 2026
Department of Finance has 3 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €430k across the 3 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd1 award
- Xerox (UK) Ltd1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.PWC2 · €500k
- 2.Xerox (UK) Ltd1 · €350k
- 3.Xerox IBS Limited1 · €350k
- 4.Gordon MRM1 · €200k
- 5.AandL Goodbody LLP1 · €145k
- 6.Korn Ferry1 · €144k
- 7.Bank of America Merrill Lynch1 · €144k
- 8.Macrobond Financial1 · €120k
- 9.Capital Economics Ltd1 · €90k
- 10.Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd1 · €40k
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Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | - |
| 2014 | 4 | - |
| 2015 | 3 | - |
| 2016 | 4 | €1.0M |
| 2017 | 1 | - |
| 2018 | 4 | €933k |
| 2019 | 1 | - |
| 2020 | 2 | - |
| 2022 | 4 | €3.8M |
| 2025 | 3 | €560k |
| 2026 | 3 | €430k |
How Department of Finance Evaluates Tenders (Price vs Quality Scorecard)
Across 7 graded eTenders notices, Department of Finance evaluates 100% of competitions on Price & Quality (MEAT) and 0% on Lowest Price Only.
Primary Regime
100% MEAT
7 MEAT · 0 Price Only
Typical Weighting Split
30% Price / 70% Quality
OGP Professional Services MEAT benchmark
Typical Contract Term
36 months
Median across 18 contracts (avg 33.8m)
Contracts Expiring in the Next 6 Months (180-Day Re-Tender Window)
View all 457 expiring Irish contracts ->No disclosed contracts over EUR 100,000 for Department of Finance have an estimated end date in the next 180 days. Browse the full 180-day expiring contracts radar across all Irish authorities ->
By value band
- €25k-€50k2 · €80k
- €50k-€144k3 · €285k
- €144k-€360k7 · €1.6M
- €360k-€1M2 · €1.1M
- €1M-€5M2 · €3.8M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 28
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 7
- Most contested award
- Department of Finance ITT for the appointment of panels of financial consultants
- 25 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Request for tenders for online media campaign, for supporting SMEs campaign (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 28
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 17.7% of €6.8M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PWC | 7.4% | - | also won €9.3M across 37 other Irish bodies → |
| Xerox (UK) Ltd | 5.2% | - | also won €1.1M across 4 other Irish bodies → |
| Xerox IBS Limited | 5.2% | Normal | - |
| Gordon MRM | 3% | - | - |
| AandL Goodbody LLP | 2.1% | - | also won €424.0M across 6 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Department of Finance in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| ICAN | 2 | 2014, 2015 |
| Macrobond Financial AB | 2 | 2019, 2022 |
| PWC | 2 | 2015, 2018 |
| RED C Research and Marketing | 2 | 2014, 2015 |
| The Institute of Banking | 2 | 2016, 2020 |
Buyer Competition & Concentration Scorecard (Framework-Deduplicated)
Computed from 30 published OGP contract awards (CC-BY 4.0), deduplicating multi-lot framework ceiling repeats.
Single-Bidder Award Rate
25%
7 of 28 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender
Top Supplier Spend Share
24%
Top 3 suppliers: 57.6% across 10 winners
Winner Concentration (HHI)
1,433
0 to 10,000 scale on deduplicated spend (<1,500 unconcentrated)
Export 30 awarded contracts (CSV & JSON)
TenderWatch ProAward history (30 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2026 | Waste Management Services - Department of Finance | Starrus Eco Holdings Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | €40k |
| 27 March 2026 | Supply of two high volume digital colour cut page production printing machines with associated delivery, installation, servicing, consumables, and replacement parts cover for a minimum of 5 years | Xerox (UK) Ltd | - | €350k | |
| 5 February 2026 | RfQ | undisclosed | - | €40k | |
| 21 November 2025 | Supply of two high volume digital colour cut page production printing machines with associated delivery, installation, servicing, consumables, and replacement parts cover for a minimum of 5 years | Xerox IBS Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | €350k |
| 31 October 2025 | RFT for provision of subscription service giving regular macroeconomic commentary, analysis and data updates | Capital Economics Ltd | 2 | Open Procedure | €90k |
| 16 October 2025 | RFT for the provision of an integrated economic time series database and statistical analysis application | Macrobond Financial | 2 | Open Procedure | €120k |
| 27 October 2022 | RFT for the provision of an integrated economic time series database and statistical analysis application | Macrobond Financial AB | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 16 July 2022 | Department of Finance Financial Panel ITT | undisclosed | 15 | Open Procedure | €2.3M |
| 5 June 2022 | RFT for provision of subscription service giving regular macroeconomic commentary, analysis and data updates | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €75k |
| 18 March 2022 | To assist in the performance of the Minister for Finance's functions, the Department of Finance has issued an invitation to tender for the provision of legal services to the Minister | undisclosed | 9 | Open Procedure | €1.5M |
| 24 August 2020 | Accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Services | The Institute of Banking | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 8 April 2020 | RFT for foreign language translation of technical legal EU Court documents | undisclosed | 8 | Open Procedure | - |
| 31 October 2019 | RFT for the provision of an integrated economic time series database and statistical analysis application | Macrobond Financial AB | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 August 2018 | Anglo Irish Bank Assessor | PWC | 3 | Open Procedure | €500k |
| 27 July 2018 | Request for Tender for a Review of Government Bank Remuneration Policy | Korn Ferry | 2 | Open Procedure | €144k |
| 5 July 2018 | Department of Finance Financial Services Panel | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | 21 | Open Procedure | €144k |
| 16 March 2018 | Provision of general legal services to the Minister for Finance | AandL Goodbody LLP | 9 | Open Procedure | €145k |
| 29 March 2017 | Request for Tender for the provision of an eDiscovery software solution | Texuna | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 21 December 2016 | Capital Markets Public Relations Consultancy Services | Gordon MRM | 8 | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 18 July 2016 | Request for Tenders for the provision of Research, Design and Media Buy Services (Public awareness and customer switching campaign in retail banking markets) | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €600k |
| 15 July 2016 | Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Services | The Institute of Banking | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 12 May 2016 | Two High Volume Digital Mono Cut Page Production Printing Machines and Two High Volume Digital | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €225k |
| 19 October 2015 | Request for Tenders for the provision of consultancy services to support the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing National Risk Assessment | PWC | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 August 2015 | SME Credit Demand Survey April - September 2015 | RED C Research and Marketing | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 10 July 2015 | Request for tenders for online media campaign, for supporting SMEs campaign | ICAN | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 November 2014 | RFT for Provision Safety Consultancy | Antaris Consulting | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 25 August 2014 | SME Credit Demand Survey April - September 2014 | RED C Research and Marketing | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 5 August 2014 | Online Advertising Campaign for Supporting SMEs Online Tool | ICAN | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 21 May 2014 | Department of Finance ITT for the appointment of panels of financial consultants | Alvarez and Marsal | 25 | Open Procedure | - |
| 5 April 2013 | Request for Tender for a Survey of R&D Active Companies | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Procurement Intelligence
The Department of Finance is a central Irish government department with responsibility for fiscal policy, public expenditure oversight, banking/financial policy, and support for whole-of-government administrative functions. In procurement terms, it is likely a relatively small-to-mid-sized buyer compared with delivery departments, but it influences purchasing standards across the public sector through policy, guidance, and framework use. For direct buys, its spend is typically concentrated in **IT services**, **professional services**, consultancy, legal/advisory support, and corporate/administrative services. The Department of Finance and the wider Irish public procurement system encourage use of OGP frameworks and competitive processes, with contracts above the national advertising threshold typically published on eTenders.[6][9]
Strategic Context
The main strategic backdrop is Ireland’s move to a new national public procurement strategy, with the OGP leading consultation and policy development around strategic, transparent, sustainable, and digital procurement.[4][6][12] That direction suggests continued emphasis on SME participation, innovation, and environmental criteria in sourcing decisions, which should affect how and when the Department buys services.[6][12] I did not find department-specific capital programme detail in the provided sources, so the strongest available signal is the government-wide reform and digitalisation agenda rather than a named Finance capital pipeline.[4][6]
Typical Suppliers
- IT managed services and systems integration firms supporting public-sector digital operations
- Management consultancies and specialist public policy advisers
- Legal, audit, and compliance advisory firms
- Recruitment and professional services suppliers used for short-term corporate capability
- Framework lot holders on OGP panels for professional services and ICT
Supplier Tips
- Target OGP frameworks first: the Department and the wider Irish public sector are strongly oriented toward framework-based procurement, so suppliers should monitor OGP and eTenders rather than relying on direct outreach alone.[6][9]
- Position offers around strategic procurement themes: sustainability, digital delivery, transparency, and value for money are core policy priorities, so bids that evidence these outcomes are more aligned with current policy direction.[6][12]
- For lower-value opportunities, be ready for competitive quote processes and fast turnaround, especially for IT and professional services where departments often seek multiple written quotes before a formal tender.[9]
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Updated 2 August 2026
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Last updated 6 November 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2013-04-05. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.