National Library of Ireland Tenders & Contract Awards
What National Library of Ireland buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
National Library of Ireland has nothing open for bidding today. Its last notice closed on 21 September 2026. 1 tender notice has come from this buyer since monitoring began.
National Library of Ireland has awarded 30 contracts totalling €9.8M between 2014 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is SureSkills (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 5% of the disclosed value. 1 company has won here in more than one year. 6 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.
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Open now
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Tender notices tracked
30
Contract awards
€9.8M
Disclosed value
€575k
Average per award
18
With named winner
National Library of Ireland
| Contracting Authority | National Library of Ireland · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | SureSkills · Billy Lutton Calligrapher |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | eircom Limited (t/a eir business) · Conservation By Design Limited · VISO Cyber Security |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Awarded in 2026
National Library of Ireland has 3 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €2.5M across the 2 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- Eneclann Ltd.1 award
- Tilting the Lense1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.SureSkills1 · €200k
- 2.eircom Limited (t/a eir business)1 · €150k
- 3.Conservation By Design Limited1 · €150k
- 4.VISO Cyber Security1 · €120k
- 5.Interactive Project Managers1 · €100k
- 7.XpertDPO3 · €60k
- 8.Tilting the Lense1 · €29k
- 9.Eneclann Ltd.1 · Not disclosed
- 10.Forvis Mazars1 · Not disclosed
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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 | 3 | €2.5M |
How National Library of Ireland Evaluates Tenders (Price vs Quality Scorecard)
Across 13 graded eTenders notices, National Library of Ireland evaluates 92.3% of competitions on Price & Quality (MEAT) and 7.7% on Lowest Price Only.
Primary Regime
92.3% MEAT
12 MEAT · 1 Price Only
Typical Weighting Split
30% Price / 70% Quality
OGP IT Services MEAT benchmark
Typical Contract Term
48 months
Median across 23 contracts (avg 46.1m)
Contracts Expiring in the Next 6 Months (180-Day Re-Tender Window)
View all 457 expiring Irish contracts ->2 active National Library of Ireland contracts over EUR 100,000 have an estimated end date within the next 180 days based on published OGP award terms.
| Contract & Incumbent | Value | Term | Est. End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collection Management Services at the National Library of Ireland | €1.5M | 48m | 17 November 2026 |
| Web Archiving Services for the National Library of Ireland | €325k | 48m | 24 November 2026 |
By value band
- €25k-€50k1 · €29k
- €50k-€144k4 · €355k
- €144k-€360k7 · €1.2M
- €360k-€1M2 · €1.2M
- €1M-€5M4 · €7.0M
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: 3
- Open Procedure: 25
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 5.1% of €9.9M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SureSkills | 2% | Normal | also won €2.5M across 12 other Irish bodies → |
| Billy Lutton Calligrapher | 1.6% | - | - |
| eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | 1.5% | - | also won €451.9M across 57 other Irish bodies → |
| Conservation By Design Limited | 1.5% | - | - |
| VISO Cyber Security | 1.2% | Normal | - |
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 | 3 | 2021, 2022, 2025 |
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2026 | National Library of Ireland - Interpretation and Design | undisclosed | €2.5M |
Buyer Competition & Concentration Scorecard (Framework-Deduplicated)
Computed from 30 published OGP contract awards (CC-BY 4.0), deduplicating multi-lot framework ceiling repeats.
Single-Bidder Award Rate
28.6%
6 of 21 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender
Top Supplier Spend Share
19.2%
Top 3 suppliers: 48.9% across 9 winners
Winner Concentration (HHI)
1,331
0 to 10,000 scale on deduplicated spend (<1,500 unconcentrated)
Export 30 awarded contracts (CSV & JSON)
TenderWatch ProAward history (30 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2026 | National Library of Ireland - Interpretation and Design | undisclosed | - | €2.5M | |
| 26 May 2026 | National Library of Ireland’s Multi-party Framework Agreement for Collection Management Services Born Digital Archives Backlog Cataloguing | Eneclann Ltd. | - | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 5 May 2026 | RFQ for the Provision of Strategic Plan Consultancy | Tilting the Lense | - | €29k | |
| 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 | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
National Library of Ireland market guides
How National Library of Ireland buys, broken down by sector: award patterns, top suppliers, and bid-readiness steps.
Other major buyers
The most recent National Library of Ireland tenders subscribers were alerted to:
- Web Archiving Services2026-08-17
Last updated 10 November 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2014-04-30. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.