Educational Research Centre - contract awards
Educational Research Centre has awarded 25 contracts totalling €8.2M between 2014 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is Vyta / IT Refreshed Global (3 awards).
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25
Awards
€8.2M
Disclosed value
€745k
Average per award
20
With named winner
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.Vyta / IT Refreshed Global3 · €3.3M
- 2.Ricoh Ireland1 · €1.8M
- 3.Nostra Systems Ltd2 · €1.5M
- 4.ICT Services2 · €740k
- 5.Trojan IT Business Solutions Ltd2 · €250k
- 6.Design Ethos2 · Not disclosed
- 7.Murray Consultants Ltd1 · Not disclosed
- 8.ODKM Architects Ltd1 · Not disclosed
- 9.KC PRINT1 · Not disclosed
- 10.Perrett Laver1 · Not disclosed
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 4 | - |
| 2018 | 2 | - |
| 2019 | 1 | - |
| 2021 | 5 | €4.2M |
| 2022 | 1 | - |
| 2023 | 2 | - |
| 2025 | 6 | €2.0M |
| 2026 | 4 | €2.0M |
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By value band
- €50k-€144k2 · €250k
- €144k-€360k5 · €600k
- €360k-€1M3 · €2.2M
- €1M-€5M5 · €5.1M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 17
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 4
- Most contested award
- Procurement of an Integrated Online Assessment System for Schools in Ireland
- 18 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Call for tenders for the provision of data entry services (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 17
- Competitive Procedure With Negotiation: 1
- Simplified: 2
- Competitive Dialogue: 1
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 62.6% of €10.7M total disclosed value — a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vyta / IT Refreshed Global | 30.9% | — | also won €825k across 3 other Irish bodies → |
| Ricoh Ireland | 16.8% | Normal | also won €12.0M across 4 other Irish bodies → |
| KC PRINT | 14.9% | Normal | — |
| Nostra Systems Ltd | 13.8% | — | also won €6.8M across 5 other Irish bodies → |
| ICT Services | 6.9% | Normal | also won €1.2M across 6 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Educational Research Centre in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| Vyta / IT Refreshed Global | 3 | 2021, 2025, 2026 |
| Design Ethos | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| ICT Services | 2 | 2018, 2021 |
| Nostra Systems Ltd | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
| Trojan IT Business Solutions Ltd | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | Invitation to tender for provision of Technical Support Services for the delivery of computer-based testing | Nostra Systems Ltd | €740k |
| 8 July 2026 | Provision of a new Finance Management System (FMS | Trojan IT Business Solutions Ltd | €125k |
| 8 July 2026 | Provision of Rented Laptops for the Educational Research Centre | Vyta / IT Refreshed Global | €1.1M |
Award history (25 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2026 | Invitation to tender for provision of Technical Support Services for the delivery of computer-based testing | Nostra Systems Ltd | — | €740k | |
| 8 July 2026 | Provision of a new Finance Management System (FMS | Trojan IT Business Solutions Ltd | — | €125k | |
| 8 July 2026 | Provision of Rented Laptops for the Educational Research Centre | Vyta / IT Refreshed Global | — | €1.1M | |
| 21 May 2026 | Framework for Provision of Illustration Services | Design Ethos | — | €350k | |
| 15 September 2025 | Invitation to tender for provision of Technical Support Services for the delivery of computer-based testing | Nostra Systems Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | €740k |
| 25 August 2025 | Provision of Rented Laptops for the Educational Research Centre | Vyta / IT Refreshed Global | 1 | Open Procedure | €1.1M |
| 8 July 2025 | Framework for Provision of Illustration Services | Design Ethos | 5 | Open Procedure | €350k |
| 5 June 2025 | Provision of a new Finance Management System (FMS | Trojan IT Business Solutions Ltd | 2 | Competitive Procedure With Negotiation | €125k |
| 22 May 2025 | Public Relations Advisory Services | Murray Consultants Ltd | — | Simplified | - |
| 22 May 2025 | Architectural design services for ERC, DCU St Patricsk Campus | ODKM Architects Ltd | — | Simplified | - |
| 6 August 2023 | Framework for the Provision of Printing Services to the Educational Research Centre | KC PRINT | 3 | Open Procedure | €1.6M |
| 8 July 2023 | Framework for the Provision of Data Entry and Records Management (Archival) Services to the Educational Research Centre | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €250k |
| 16 November 2022 | Executive search services for senior management role | Perrett Laver | 7 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 October 2021 | Tender for the provision of laptops for hire and use in international tests | Vyta / IT Refreshed Global | 1 | Open Procedure | €1.1M |
| 30 October 2021 | Technical support for international student tests | ICT Services | 1 | Open Procedure | €740k |
| 4 April 2021 | RFT for the supply of Educational Research Centre's Printing requirements to the Educational Research Centre | Ricoh Ireland | 6 | Open Procedure | €1.8M |
| 27 January 2021 | RFT for Educational Psychometric and Technical Expert Services using large scale Item Response Theory (IRT) | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €300k |
| 25 January 2021 | Educational Psychometric and Technical Expert Services | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €300k |
| 9 October 2019 | Procurement of an Integrated Online Assessment System for Schools in Ireland | Prodigy Learning Limited | 18 | Competitive Dialogue | - |
| 28 June 2018 | Call for tenders for the provision of technical support for PISA Feasibility Study | ICT Services | 8 | Open Procedure | - |
| 13 March 2018 | Call for tenders for the provision of data entry services | Seefin Data Management Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 15 December 2014 | Laptop Hire - Supply of laptops for PISA 2015 | Hire Intelligence International Limited | 6 | Open Procedure | - |
| 15 December 2014 | Technical support PISA 2015 | Hybrid IT Solutions Ltd | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 September 2014 | Web-based scoring and reporting system for a range of tests published by the Educational ?Research Centre | undisclosed | 7 | Open Procedure | - |
| 19 August 2014 | Development of a web-based scoring and reporting system | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
Last updated 3 September 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2014-08-19. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.
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