National Library of Ireland - contract awards
National Library of Ireland has awarded 29 contracts totalling €7.3M between 2014 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is SureSkills (1 award).
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29
Awards
€7.3M
Disclosed value
€431k
Average per award
18
With named winner
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.SureSkills1 · €200k
- 2.eircom Limited (t/a eir business)1 · €150k
- 3.Conservation By Design Limited1 · €150k
- 4.XpertDPO4 · €120k
- 5.VISO Cyber Security1 · €120k
- 6.Interactive Project Managers1 · €100k
- 7.Creative Technology (Audio Visual) Ireland Ltd1 · €75k
- 8.Tilting the Lense1 · €29k
- 9.Forvis Mazars1 · Not disclosed
- 10.Billy Lutton Calligrapher1 · Not disclosed
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | - |
| 2015 | 4 | €200k |
| 2016 | 1 | €200k |
| 2017 | 3 | €360k |
| 2018 | 1 | €800k |
| 2021 | 1 | - |
| 2022 | 6 | €4.8M |
| 2023 | 1 | €75k |
| 2024 | 4 | €420k |
| 2025 | 5 | €360k |
| 2026 | 2 | €89k |
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By value band
- €25k-€50k1 · €29k
- €50k-€144k5 · €415k
- €144k-€360k7 · €1.2M
- €360k-€1M2 · €1.2M
- €1M-€5M3 · €4.5M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 21
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 6
- Most contested award
- NLI_DPO - NLI _Data Protection Officer Services
- 9 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: genealogy services in the National Library of Ireland, June – September 2014 (2 bids)
By procedure
- Direct Invite – Mini-Competition: 2
- Open Procedure: 25
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 6.8% of €7.5M total disclosed value — a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SureSkills | 2.7% | Normal | also won €2.1M across 12 other Irish bodies → |
| Billy Lutton Calligrapher | 2.1% | — | — |
| eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | 2% | — | also won €449.4M across 54 other Irish bodies → |
| Conservation By Design Limited | 2% | — | — |
| XpertDPO | 1.6% | Normal | also won €735k across 5 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by National Library of Ireland in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| XpertDPO | 4 | 2021, 2022, 2025, 2026 |
Award history (29 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2026 | RFQ for the Provision of Strategic Plan Consultancy | Tilting the Lense | — | €29k | |
| 25 March 2026 | The Provision of Data Protection Officer and Related Services | XpertDPO | — | €60k | |
| 18 December 2025 | The Provision of Internal Audit Services to the National Library of Ireland | Forvis Mazars | — | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 9 December 2025 | The Provision of Data Protection Officer and Related Services | XpertDPO | 5 | Open Procedure | €60k |
| 27 November 2025 | Hosted PBX Voice over IP Services | eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | 7 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 22 October 2025 | Supply and Installation of Digital Cutting Table and Related Equipment | Conservation By Design Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 4 March 2025 | The Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Services for the Office of the Chief Herald at the National Library of Ireland | Billy Lutton Calligrapher | 6 | Open Procedure | €160k |
| 17 December 2024 | Provision of Cleaning Services National Library of Ireland | Moore Cleaning Services | — | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 6 September 2024 | The Provision of Project Monitoring Services - NLI Capital Works Project | Interactive Project Managers | 4 | Open Procedure | €100k |
| 28 May 2024 | Provision of Storage Virtualisation Infrastructure and DR Managed Services | SureSkills | 1 | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 4 March 2024 | Provision of Chief Information Security Officer Function and Related Services, National Library of Ireland | VISO Cyber Security | 8 | Open Procedure | €120k |
| 10 July 2023 | Audio Visual Equipment and Related Services | Creative Technology (Audio Visual) Ireland Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | €75k |
| 17 November 2022 | Collection Management Services National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €1.5M |
| 17 November 2022 | Collection Management Services National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €1.5M |
| 26 October 2022 | NLI_DPO - NLI _Data Protection Officer Services | XpertDPO | 9 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 August 2022 | Cameras for Digitisation at the National Library of Ireland | Strazo Ltd | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 17 July 2022 | Collection Management Services at the National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | 8 | Open Procedure | €1.5M |
| 16 July 2022 | Web Archiving Services for the National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | €325k |
| 22 October 2021 | NLI _Data Protection Officer Services | XpertDPO | 8 | Open Procedure | - |
| 25 March 2018 | Web Archiving Services in the National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | €800k |
| 2 July 2017 | Storage of the National Library of Ireland's Prints & Drawings Collection | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | €360k |
| 30 June 2017 | Web Archiving of the Irish Domain | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 May 2017 | Request for tenders for the provision of onsite ICT Helpdesk service | undisclosed | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 4 July 2016 | PR, Communications and Marketing Services for the National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 25 September 2015 | IIT For provision of Conservation Services to National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 June 2015 | Invitation to Tender for a Café Concession and Catering Services in the National Library of Ireland | 628food | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 10 June 2015 | 2015 New Books National Library of Ireland | undisclosed | — | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 9 January 2015 | Conservation of Genealogical Office Manuscript Collection | LEVEQUE | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 April 2014 | genealogy services in the National Library of Ireland, June – September 2014 | Ancestor Network Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
Last updated 10 August 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2014-04-30. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.
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