Department of Health - contract awards
Who wins Department of Health contracts, and how hard it is to break in
Department of Health has awarded 55 contracts totalling €17.6M between 2013 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is OCS One Complete Solution Limited (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 39% of the disclosed value. 7 companies have won here in more than one year. 11 of the 43 awards with a published bid count drew a single bidder.
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55
Awards
€17.6M
Disclosed value
€678k
Average per award
45
With named winner
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.OCS One Complete Solution Limited1 · €4.5M
- 2.National University of Ireland Galway2 · €1.6M
- 3.eircom Limited (t/a eir business)2 · €1.2M
- 4.Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd2 · €1.1M
- 5.Ergo2 · €1.0M
- 6.Forvis Mazars1 · €500k
- 7.Bluewave Technology Ltd1 · €500k
- 8.eir evo1 · €450k
- 9.LSE Enterprise Ltd2 · €308k
- 10.Veronica Lambert2 · €280k
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | - |
| 2014 | 2 | - |
| 2015 | 3 | - |
| 2016 | 1 | €500k |
| 2017 | 3 | €850k |
| 2018 | 3 | €4.7M |
| 2019 | 4 | €400k |
| 2020 | 3 | €600k |
| 2021 | 7 | €1.2M |
| 2022 | 3 | €210k |
| 2023 | 5 | €846k |
| 2024 | 6 | €408k |
| 2025 | 8 | €6.2M |
| 2026 | 6 | €1.8M |
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By value band
- €25k-€50k1 · €48k
- €50k-€144k9 · €791k
- €144k-€360k5 · €668k
- €360k-€1M14 · €7.7M
- €1M-€5M2 · €8.4M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 43
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 11
- Most contested award
- RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Documentary Counsel to support and assist an Inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valporate
- 16 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Research for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (2018) Collaborative Study (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 46
- Direct Invite – Mini-Competition: 2
- Simplified: 2
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 39.3% of €18.7M total disclosed value — a market-concentration signal.
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Department of Health in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| Alice Maguire-Spencer BL | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Ergo | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd | 2 | 2018, 2019 |
| LSE Enterprise Ltd | 2 | 2024, 2026 |
| NR Media Intelligence ta Truehawk Media | 2 | 2022, 2025 |
| PFH Technology Group | 2 | 2023, 2024 |
| Veronica Lambert | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | RFT for the Provision of Microsoft Infrastructure and Services Support for Department of Health | Ergo | €500k |
| 28 July 2026 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Managed Detection and Response Services for Department of Health | eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | €600k |
| 27 July 2026 | Research support services for the Commission on Care for Older Persons | LSE Enterprise Ltd | - |
Award history (55 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | RFT for the Provision of Microsoft Infrastructure and Services Support for Department of Health | Ergo | — | €500k | |
| 28 July 2026 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Managed Detection and Response Services for Department of Health | eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | — | €600k | |
| 27 July 2026 | Research support services for the Commission on Care for Older Persons | LSE Enterprise Ltd | — | - | |
| 24 June 2026 | RFT for Evaluation of the National Children’s Palliative Care Policy (2009) for Department of Health | Veronica Lambert | — | €140k | |
| 27 April 2026 | RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Documentary Counsel to support and assist an Inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valporate | Alice Maguire-Spencer BL | — | €130k | |
| 25 February 2026 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Managed Detection and Response Services for Department of Health | eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | 14 | Open Procedure | €600k |
| 18 November 2025 | RFT for the Provision of Microsoft Infrastructure and Services Support for Department of Health | Ergo | 4 | Open Procedure | €500k |
| 13 October 2025 | RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Documentary Counsel to support and assist an Inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valporate | Alice Maguire-Spencer BL | 16 | Open Procedure | €130k |
| 19 September 2025 | RFT for Evaluation of the National Children’s Palliative Care Policy (2009) for Department of Health | Veronica Lambert | 4 | Open Procedure | €140k |
| 1 September 2025 | RFT for the provision of Department of Health Media Monitoring Services | NR Media Intelligence ta Truehawk Media | 2 | Open Procedure | €75k |
| 19 August 2025 | The development of a New Breastfeeding policy for the Department of Health. | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €48k |
| 17 July 2025 | Facilities Management Services at the Department of Health | OCS One Complete Solution Limited | 7 | Open Procedure | €4.5M |
| 18 June 2025 | SRFT - PAS118F SME External Assurance and Review Process of the business case documentation for an Enterprise Level Electronic Health Record system | PwC | — | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 31 March 2025 | Research for the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (2026) Collaborative Study | National University of Ireland Galway | 1 | Open Procedure | €900k |
| 3 December 2024 | Research on the Expansion of the Role of Pharmacy | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | — | Simplified | - |
| 3 December 2024 | Tender for Provision of Legislative Drafting/Settling Services for Department of Health | Adam Hanlon BL | 5 | Open Procedure | €100k |
| 20 September 2024 | Provision of ICT Helpdesk | PFH Technology Group | — | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 16 September 2024 | DOH Sugar sweetened drinks tax evaluation | Technological University of the Shannon | — | Simplified | - |
| 14 May 2024 | Development of Healthy Workplace Support Service to drive implementation of the National Healthy Workplace Framework | Real Nation | 3 | Open Procedure | €400k |
| 5 January 2024 | Research support services for the Commission on Care for Older Persons | LSE Enterprise Ltd | 6 | Open Procedure | €308k |
| 15 November 2023 | Provision of Technical Support advice for the Implementation of the Health System Performance Assessment (HSPA) Framework. | Academisch Medisch Centrum bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam | 3 | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 6 November 2023 | Provision and Installation of a Tape Backup Library | PFH Technology Group | 1 | Open Procedure | €100k |
| 27 October 2023 | Provision of a mixed methods evaluation of HSE Health Regions | Forvis Mazars | 4 | Open Procedure | €500k |
| 20 October 2023 | Daily monitoring service and maintenance and support services for Windows OS, File and Print, Active Directory and Project Work in respect of the Windows and AD environments | Ekco | 2 | Open Procedure | €96k |
| 3 June 2023 | Provision of Research Services for the European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) 2024 | TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland | 3 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 5 October 2022 | The supply of an online media monitoring service (including online, print and broadcast media) with news content searching and alerting functionality. | NR Media Intelligence ta Truehawk Media | 6 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 September 2022 | Development and Delivery of National Survey on Workplace Health and Wellbeing | Core | 5 | Open Procedure | €210k |
| 25 January 2022 | Independent Patient Safety Council Research Project on Patient Safety Incidents Policy | Crowe | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 14 December 2021 | Provision of a Web front-end and back-end database system for the National Donor-Conceived Persons Register | Threadable | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 8 December 2021 | RFT for the Provision of qualitative research to Inform the review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act | The Manchester Metropolitan University | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 31 October 2021 | The provision of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services for the Department's ICT infrastructure | eir evo | 7 | Open Procedure | €450k |
| 5 September 2021 | Research for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (2022) Collaborative Study | National University of Ireland Galway | 1 | Open Procedure | €721k |
| 4 June 2021 | Review of the implementation of the 2001 report of the National Advisory Committee on Palliative Care | Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 May 2021 | Irish Sign Language Services | Bridge Interpreting Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 29 April 2021 | Provision of Aggregated and Anonymised Mobile Phone Data | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 September 2020 | Provision of an ICT Helpdesk Service | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | €600k |
| 23 July 2020 | Tender for Provision of Legislative Drafting/Settling Services | Conor Feeney BL | 9 | Open Procedure | - |
| 28 February 2020 | Department of Health Facilities Management Tender 2020 | undisclosed | 6 | Open Procedure | - |
| 12 December 2019 | RFT for SAS support and maintenance | Amadeus Software Ltd | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 13 November 2019 | Clinical Advisor Services | Prof FBV Keane | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 November 2019 | Health Literacy Survey in Ireland | Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | €400k |
| 15 October 2019 | Microsoft SQL Server Licensing | CDW Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 15 October 2018 | Tender to examine the international literature and experience around serious reportable events and clinical audit to inform the guidance to be issued by the Minister for the Patient Safety Bill. | University College Cork | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 14 October 2018 | Establishment and delivery of the Patient Safety Advocacy Service | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €3.9M |
| 20 March 2018 | The Department of Health invites tenders to this RFT for the provision of services to conduct an annual Healthy Ireland Survey for a 3 year period | Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd | 3 | Open Procedure | €750k |
| 30 November 2017 | Irish Department of Health - IT software products as part of a Health Analytics Solution | undisclosed | 8 | Open Procedure | €140k |
| 12 October 2017 | Development of a National Competency Framework for Healthcare / Patient Safety Complaints Advocacy and Training Course(s) | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €154k |
| 24 September 2017 | Research for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (2018) Collaborative Study | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | €710k |
| 5 October 2016 | Provision of support and maintenance for in-house Lotus Domino infrastructure | Bluewave Technology Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | €500k |
| 27 July 2015 | Request for Tender (RFT) for the provision of systematic literature review and budget impact analysis to support the development of National Clinical Guidelines | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | - |
| 17 February 2015 | Analysis of potential measures to encourage the provision of primary care facilities | Indecon International Economic and Strategic Consultants | 6 | Open Procedure | - |
| 17 February 2015 | Analysis of potential measures to encourage the provision of Nursing Home and Community Nursing Unit facilities | DKM Economic Consultants | 6 | Open Procedure | - |
| 3 July 2014 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Actuarial / Insurance Advisory Services to the Minister for Health in Relation to the Regulation of the Irish Health Insurance Market & UHI | Milliman Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 8 April 2014 | Provision of services to conduct an annual Healthy Ireland Survey over a three year period | undisclosed | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 December 2013 | Research for the Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children (2014) Collaborative Study | NUI Galway | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
Last updated 24 September 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2013-12-23. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.
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