National Council for Special Education - contract awards
National Council for Special Education has been awarded 22 contracts totalling €5.0M between 2015-2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is University of Limerick (1 award).
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22
Awards
€5.0M
Disclosed value
€356k
Average per award
18
With named winner
Top suppliers awarded
- 1. University of Limerick 1 · €1.4M
- 2. Ernst and Young 2 · €280k
- 3. Access Translations 1 · €250k
- 4. Edge Hill University 1 · €196k
- 5. Hibernia College 2 · €180k
- 6. Orange Recruitment 1 · €150k
- 7. Halton Removals and Storage Limited 1 · €140k
- 8. Irish Mapping and GIS Solutions (trading as IMGS) 1 · €105k
- 9. Economic and Social Research Institute 2 · Not disclosed
- 10. Ailesbury Services 1 · Not disclosed
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 | €615k |
| 2026 | 1 | €90k |
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By value band
- €50k-€144k 6 · €705k
- €144k-€360k 5 · €1.0M
- €360k-€1M 1 · €740k
- €1M-€5M 2 · €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
One or more top suppliers for this authority are recorded as dissolved or inactive in the Companies Registration Office.
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 €9.7M across 6 other Irish bodies → |
| Ernst and Young | 5.6% | — | also won €516.7M across 48 other Irish bodies → |
| Access Translations | 5% | — | also won €4.0M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Edge Hill University | 3.9% | — | — |
| Hibernia College | 3.6% | Normal | also won €1.7M across 1 other Irish body → |
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 |
| Hibernia College | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
Award 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 | 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 |
Last updated 31 July 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2015-04-23. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.
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