Higher Education Authority Tenders & Contract Awards
What Higher Education Authority buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
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Higher Education Authority has awarded 9 contracts totalling €763k between 2019 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is McCauley Daye O'Connell Architects (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 92% of the disclosed value. No company has yet won here in more than one year, so the field is more open than most.
Public buyers rarely change supplier mid-contract. The opening is usually a new requirement, not a switch.
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Tender notices tracked
9
Contract awards
€763k
Disclosed value
€109k
Average per award
8
With named winner
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Higher Education Authority
| Contracting Authority | Higher Education Authority · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | Hartley People Ltd. · McCauley Daye O'Connell Architects |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | Fuzion Communications · All Ireland Insurance · bigO |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Awarded in 2026
Higher Education Authority has 6 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €623k across the 6 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- All Ireland Insurance1 award
- University of Galway1 award
- Upguard1 award
- McCauley Daye O'Connell Architects1 award
- bigO1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.McCauley Daye O'Connell Architects1 · €300k
- 2.Fuzion Communications1 · €140k
- 3.All Ireland Insurance1 · €113k
- 4.bigO1 · €90k
- 5.Upguard1 · €45k
- 6.University of Galway1 · €25k
- 7.Hartley People Ltd.1 · Not disclosed
- 8.Mazars1 · Not disclosed
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Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | - |
| 2025 | 2 | €140k |
| 2026 | 6 | €623k |
By value band
- €25k-€50k2 · €70k
- €50k-€144k4 · €393k
- €144k-€360k1 · €300k
- €1M-€5M1 · Not disclosed
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 4
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 0
- Most contested award
- Tender for Multi-Disciplinary Design Team Services - Architect Led Design Team Consultancy Services including ME Building Services Quantity Surveying PDSP and Acoustic Sound Engineering Services
- 15 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Request for The provision of Communications and Public Relations Services for Strategic Marketing of the MicroCreds.ie Portal and the Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy in 2026 (4 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 5
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 91.9% of €4.0M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 October 2026 | Request for Tender (RFT) – Managed Print Services (MPS) | undisclosed | €50k |
| 26 August 2026 | PLI131D Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Insurance Brokerage and Placement Services for Public Sector Bodies (excluding Central Government Departments) | All Ireland Insurance | €113k |
| 13 August 2026 | Request for The provision of Consultancy Services for the Analysis of National Surveys of Staff and Student Experiences of Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions | University of Galway | €25k |
| 13 August 2026 | Request for The quotation of a Vendor Risk Management and External Attack Surface Monitoring software platform | Upguard | €45k |
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Last updated 24 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2019-04-16. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.