National Council for Special Education Tenders & Contract Awards
What National Council for Special Education buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
National Council for Special Education has 1 open tender accepting bids right now, most of them in Professional Services and Construction. 5 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
National Council for Special Education has awarded 22 contracts totalling €4.9M between 2015 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is University of Limerick (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 39% of the disclosed value. 1 company has won here in more than one year. 7 of the 21 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.
Follow the companies already winning National Council for Special Education contracts
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Open now
5
Tender notices tracked
22
Contract awards
€4.9M
Disclosed value
€375k
Average per award
18
With named winner
National Council for Special Education
| Contracting Authority | National Council for Special Education · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | University of Limerick · Ernst and Young |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | Access Translations · Edge Hill University · Orange Recruitment |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Open National Council for Special Education tenders
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Most recent 4 of 4Evaluation of the NCSE Education and Therapy Service
National Council for Special Education
Request for Tenders for the provision of a Schools based Crisis Response Trainer programme
National Council for Special Education
Provision of Recruitment Services for the NCSE
National Council for Special Education
Literature Review on Inclusive Pedagogy to inform development of the NCSE Quality Practice Framework
National Council for Special Education
Closed notices are retained as a signal of what this authority actually procures. Deadlines have passed, do not bid.
Awarded in 2026
National Council for Special Education has 1 published contract award in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €90k across the 1 award with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- Hibernia College1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.University of Limerick1 · €1.4M
- 2.Ernst and Young2 · €280k
- 3.Access Translations1 · €250k
- 4.Edge Hill University1 · €196k
- 5.Orange Recruitment1 · €150k
- 6.Halton Removals and Storage Limited1 · €140k
- 7.Hibernia College1 · €90k
- 8.Hibernia College Unlimited Company1 · €90k
- 9.Economic and Social Research Institute2 · Not disclosed
- 10.Irish Mapping and GIS Solutions (trading as IMGS)1 · Not disclosed
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Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | €195k |
| 2017 | 2 | €240k |
| 2018 | 4 | €3.3M |
| 2019 | 2 | - |
| 2020 | 2 | - |
| 2022 | 2 | €250k |
| 2023 | 2 | €150k |
| 2024 | 1 | €196k |
| 2025 | 5 | €510k |
| 2026 | 1 | €90k |
Purchase orders over EUR 20,000 (payment register)
National Council for Special Education recorded 58 purchase-order payments over EUR 20,000 totalling €3.6M across 26 suppliers (2021-2022 Q2, data.gov.ie CC-BY-4.0).
- 1.University College Dublin3 payments · €1.0M
- 2.Office of Public Works10 payments · €756k
- 3.University of Limerick8 payments · €515k
- 4.Nesta Kylemore6 payments · €214k
- 5.Outside the Box Learning Resources3 payments · €135k
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How National Council for Special Education Evaluates Tenders (Price vs Quality Scorecard)
Across 22 graded eTenders notices, National Council for Special Education evaluates 95.5% of competitions on Price & Quality (MEAT) and 4.5% on Lowest Price Only.
Primary Regime
95.5% MEAT
21 MEAT · 1 Price Only
Typical Weighting Split
30% Price / 70% Quality
OGP Professional Services MEAT benchmark
Typical Contract Term
24 months
Median across 34 contracts (avg 32.1m)
Contracts Expiring in the Next 6 Months (180-Day Re-Tender Window)
View all 457 expiring Irish contracts ->No disclosed contracts over EUR 100,000 for National Council for Special Education have an estimated end date in the next 180 days. Browse the full 180-day expiring contracts radar across all Irish authorities ->
By value band
- €50k-€144k6 · €600k
- €144k-€360k5 · €1.0M
- €360k-€1M1 · €740k
- €1M-€5M2 · €2.5M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 21
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 7
- Most contested award
- Research: Exploring the factors behind the growth in demand for special school and special class places
- 10 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Provision of Speech and Language Therapy Support Services for Schools (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 21
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 38.7% of €5.0M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Limerick | 28.1% | Strike Off Listed | also won €9.4M across 5 other Irish bodies → |
| Ernst and Young | 5.6% | - | also won €734.5M across 50 other Irish bodies → |
| Access Translations | 5% | - | also won €4.0M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Edge Hill University | 3.9% | - | - |
| Orange Recruitment | 3% | Normal | also won €550k across 2 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by National Council for Special Education in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| Economic and Social Research Institute | 2 | 2019, 2020 |
Buyer Competition & Concentration Scorecard (Framework-Deduplicated)
Computed from 22 published OGP contract awards (CC-BY 4.0), deduplicating multi-lot framework ceiling repeats.
Single-Bidder Award Rate
33.3%
7 of 21 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender
Top Supplier Spend Share
51.8%
Top 3 suppliers: 71.5% across 9 winners
Winner Concentration (HHI)
3,027
0 to 10,000 scale on deduplicated spend (<1,500 unconcentrated)
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TenderWatch ProAward history (22 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 March 2026 | Research: Exploring the factors behind the growth in demand for special school and special class places | Hibernia College | - | €90k | |
| 21 November 2025 | Transformation Partner (Consultant Secondment/Partnership) | Ernst and Young | 1 | Open Procedure | €140k |
| 20 June 2025 | Single Supplier Framework for the provision of ETL Software Tool, ETL Software Training and Professional Services SLA (3 lots) for NCSE | Irish Mapping and GIS Solutions (trading as IMGS) | 2 | Open Procedure | €105k |
| 18 June 2025 | Nationwide Collection and Delivery Solution | Halton Removals and Storage Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | €140k |
| 8 May 2025 | NCSE Strategic Review and Integration Planning for Future Special Education Support Services | Ernst and Young | 1 | Open Procedure | €140k |
| 7 February 2025 | Research: Exploring the factors behind the growth in demand for special school and special class places | Hibernia College Unlimited Company | 10 | Open Procedure | €90k |
| 29 July 2024 | Evaluation of the NCSE Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Support Model Pilot | Edge Hill University | 5 | Open Procedure | €196k |
| 4 August 2023 | Provision of Recruitment Services | Orange Recruitment | 2 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 6 March 2023 | Daily cleaning of 2 office locations, monthly cleaning of 1 office location | Ailesbury Services | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 November 2022 | Translation Services | Access Translations | 5 | Open Procedure | €250k |
| 6 January 2022 | Post-Graduate Certificate/Diploma Programme of Teacher Professional Learning for Teachers working with Students with Special Educational Needs (Autism) | sT ANGELAS COLLEGE SLIGO | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 16 October 2020 | RFT design and print management service | Clever Cat Design | 10 | Open Procedure | - |
| 1 August 2020 | Research: Mapping and Tracking Students with Special Educational Needs after they leave School | Economic and Social Research Institute | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 October 2019 | Comprehensive Evaluation of the School Inclusion Model | Economic and Social Research Institute | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 October 2019 | Offsite Records Storage | Iron Mountain Ireland Limited | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 November 2018 | Occupational Therapy Support Services for Schools | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | €740k |
| 22 August 2018 | Provision of Occupational Therapy Support Services for Schools | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | €1.1M |
| 19 August 2018 | Provision of Speech and Language Therapy Support Services for Schools | University of Limerick | 2 | Open Procedure | €1.4M |
| 20 July 2018 | Evaluation of the In-School and Pre-School Therapy Support Demonstration Project | University College Cork | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 27 October 2017 | Review of Educational Provision in Adult Day Services | RSM Ireland | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 28 September 2017 | NCSE ICT Managed Services Contract | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €240k |
| 23 April 2015 | Initial Teacher Education for Inclusion | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | €195k |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Other major buyers
1 new National Council for Special Education tender published in the last 14 days. Subscribers receive these in the weekly Monday digest.
Last updated 6 November 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2015-04-23. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.