Department of Health Tenders & Contract Awards
What Department of Health buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Department of Health has nothing open for bidding today. Its last notice closed on 10 August 2026. 1 tender notice has come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Department of Health has awarded 52 contracts totalling €16.5M between 2013 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is OCS One Complete Solution Limited (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 42% of the disclosed value. 3 companies have won here in more than one year. 11 of the 43 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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Tender notices tracked
52
Contract awards
€16.5M
Disclosed value
€661k
Average per award
40
With named winner
Department of Health
| Contracting Authority | Department of Health · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | OCS One Complete Solution Limited · National University of Ireland Galway |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd · eircom Limited (t/a eir business) · Ergo |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Awarded in 2026
Department of Health has 3 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €733k across the 3 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.OCS One Complete Solution Limited1 · €4.5M
- 2.National University of Ireland Galway2 · €1.6M
- 3.Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd2 · €1.1M
- 4.eircom Limited (t/a eir business)1 · €600k
- 5.Ergo1 · €500k
- 6.Forvis Mazars1 · €500k
- 7.Bluewave Technology Ltd1 · €500k
- 8.eir evo1 · €450k
- 9.LSE Enterprise Ltd1 · €308k
- 10.Core1 · €210k
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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 | 3 | €733k |
How Department of Health Evaluates Tenders (Price vs Quality Scorecard)
Across 18 graded eTenders notices, Department of Health evaluates 83.3% of competitions on Price & Quality (MEAT) and 16.7% on Lowest Price Only.
Primary Regime
83.3% MEAT
15 MEAT · 3 Price Only
Typical Weighting Split
30% Price / 70% Quality
OGP Professional Services MEAT benchmark
Typical Contract Term
36 months
Median across 39 contracts (avg 32.5m)
Contracts Expiring in the Next 6 Months (180-Day Re-Tender Window)
View all 457 expiring Irish contracts ->1 active Department of Health contract over EUR 100,000 have an estimated end date within the next 180 days based on published OGP award terms.
| Contract & Incumbent | Value | Term | Est. End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development of Healthy Workplace Support Service to drive implementation of the National Healthy Workplace Framework Incumbent: Real Nation | €397k | 30m | 12 March 2027 |
By value band
- €25k-€50k1 · €48k
- €50k-€144k9 · €784k
- €144k-€360k5 · €668k
- €360k-€1M12 · €6.6M
- €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 41.8% of €17.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipsos MRBI / MRBI Market Research Ltd | 2 | 2018, 2019 |
| NR Media Intelligence ta Truehawk Media | 2 | 2022, 2025 |
| PFH Technology Group | 2 | 2023, 2024 |
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2026 | Request for Tenders for Department of Health for the provision of Human Centered Design model for improving mental health outcomes in Slaintecare Healthy Communities | undisclosed | €63k |
| 30 October 2026 | Request for Tenders for Department of Health for Review of the National Maternity Strategy (2016-2026) | undisclosed | €70k |
Buyer Competition & Concentration Scorecard (Framework-Deduplicated)
Computed from 52 published OGP contract awards (CC-BY 4.0), deduplicating multi-lot framework ceiling repeats.
Single-Bidder Award Rate
25.6%
11 of 43 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender
Top Supplier Spend Share
38.4%
Top 3 suppliers: 55.8% across 20 winners
Winner Concentration (HHI)
1,791
0 to 10,000 scale on deduplicated spend (<1,500 unconcentrated)
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TenderWatch ProAward history (52 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2026 | Request for Tenders for Department of Health for the provision of Human Centered Design model for improving mental health outcomes in Slaintecare Healthy Communities | undisclosed | - | €63k | |
| 30 October 2026 | Request for Tenders for Department of Health for Review of the National Maternity Strategy (2016-2026) | undisclosed | - | €70k | |
| 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 | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
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Last updated 10 November 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2013-12-23. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.