Department of Rural and Community Development Tenders & Contract Awards
What Department of Rural and Community Development buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Department of Rural and Community Development has 1 open tender accepting bids right now, most of them in Transport. 4 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Department of Rural and Community Development has awarded 5 contracts totalling €2.3M between 2020 and 2024. Top supplier by disclosed value is Vodafone (2 awards).
Its three largest suppliers hold 97% of the disclosed value. 1 company has won here in more than one year. 1 of the 5 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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1
Open now
4
Tender notices tracked
5
Contract awards
€2.3M
Disclosed value
€570k
Average per award
5
With named winner
Open Department of Rural and Community Development tenders
1 liveRecently closed
Most recent 3 of 3Air Service from Aerfort Chonamara, Na Mine, Co na Gaillimhe to Oileáin Árann, Co. na Gaillimhe, Ireland 2026 -2030
Department of Rural and Community Development
Fast Ferry Passenger Service between Oileán Thoraí Co. Dhún na nGall and Cé Mhachaire Rabhartaigh on the mainland
Department of Rural and Community Development
Heavy Cargo Service for Bere Island, Co. Cork 2026 - 2030
Department of Rural and Community Development
Closed notices are retained as a signal of what this authority actually procures. Deadlines have passed, do not bid.
Most recent awards: 2024
Department of Rural and Community Development has 2 published contract awards in 2024 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €2.1M across the 2 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2024
- Match Marketing1 award
- Vodafone1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.Vodafone2 · €2.0M
- 2.Match Marketing1 · €150k
- 3.Outscape Trading Ltd1 · €70k
- 4.S3 Solutions1 · €60k
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | €70k |
| 2023 | 1 | €60k |
| 2024 | 2 | €2.1M |
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- €50k-€144k2 · €130k
- €144k-€360k1 · €150k
- €1M-€5M1 · €2.0M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 5
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 1
- Most contested award
- Provision of a network solution for Broadband Connection Points including installation and support along with associated services
- 5 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: The Installation of External and Internal Broadband Connection Access Points and Retail supply of Wireless Broadband primarily related to the rollout of the National Broadband Plan (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 5
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 97.4% of €2.3M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vodafone | 87.7% | Normal | also won €22.8M across 19 other Irish bodies → |
| Match Marketing | 6.6% | Dissolved | - |
| Outscape Trading Ltd | 3.1% | - | also won €1.5M across 9 other Irish bodies → |
| S3 Solutions | 2.6% | - | also won €235k across 9 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Department of Rural and Community Development in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| Vodafone | 2 | 2020, 2024 |
Export 5 awarded contracts (CSV & JSON)
TenderWatch ProAward history (5 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2024 | Open Tender for the provision of a national and local Communications Media Campaign of awareness for the Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) | Match Marketing | 1 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 16 September 2024 | Provision of a network solution for Broadband Connection Points including installation and support along with associated services | Vodafone | 5 | Open Procedure | €2.0M |
| 11 July 2023 | Research on barriers to involvement in Public Participation Networks | S3 Solutions | 4 | Open Procedure | €60k |
| 7 March 2020 | Review of the Delivery, Funding and Strategic Development of the Walks Scheme by The Department of Rural and Community Development | Outscape Trading Ltd | 4 | Open Procedure | €70k |
| 14 January 2020 | The Installation of External and Internal Broadband Connection Access Points and Retail supply of Wireless Broadband primarily related to the rollout of the National Broadband Plan | Vodafone | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
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See TenderWatch ProLast updated 20 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2020-01-14. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.