Public Appointments Service Tenders & Contract Awards
What Public Appointments Service buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Public Appointments Service has nothing open for bidding today. Its last notice closed on 28 May 2026. 3 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Public Appointments Service has awarded 32 contracts totalling €4.2M between 2015 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is Version1 Software Limited (5 awards).
Its three largest suppliers hold 85% of the disclosed value. 1 company has won here in more than one year. 4 of the 30 awards with a published bid count drew a single bidder.
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Tender notices tracked
32
Contract awards
€4.2M
Disclosed value
€420k
Average per award
16
With named winner
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Awarded in 2026
Public Appointments Service has 2 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €2.0M across the 2 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- Version1 Software Limited2 awards
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.Version1 Software Limited5 · €3.0M
- 2.Odgers1 · €480k
- 3.Signium Ireland1 · €150k
- 4.Sova Assessment1 · €140k
- 5.SHL Group Ltd1 · €80k
- 6.Grosvenor Services1 · Not disclosed
- 7.Organisation Development and Research Ltd1 · Not disclosed
- 8.Qualtrics LLC1 · Not disclosed
- 9.Real Nation1 · Not disclosed
- 10.Opes Business Partners Ltd1 · Not disclosed
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | - |
| 2016 | 3 | €200k |
| 2017 | 3 | €250k |
| 2020 | 4 | €650k |
| 2021 | 5 | - |
| 2022 | 4 | €400k |
| 2023 | 6 | - |
| 2024 | 1 | €80k |
| 2025 | 3 | €620k |
| 2026 | 2 | €2.0M |
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- €50k-€144k2 · €220k
- €144k-€360k3 · €600k
- €360k-€1M3 · €1.4M
- €1M-€5M2 · €2.0M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 30
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 4
- Most contested award
- Provision of Executive Search Services to the Public Appointments Service for appointments to the Boards of State Agencies
- 13 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Consultancy Support in the Enhancement of the In-house Recruitment Application (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 30
- Direct Invite – Mini-Competition: 1
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 85.2% of €4.2M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version1 Software Limited | 70.2% | Normal | also won €393.9M across 19 other Irish bodies → |
| Odgers | 11.4% | - | also won €120k across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Signium Ireland | 3.6% | - | also won Not disclosed across 1 other Irish body → |
| Sova Assessment | 3.3% | Normal | - |
| SHL Group Ltd | 1.9% | Ceased IRL | also won Not disclosed across 1 other Irish body → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Public Appointments Service in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| Version1 Software Limited | 5 | 2016, 2017, 2020, 2026 |
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | Provision of Software Support Services | Version1 Software Limited | €1.0M |
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TenderWatch ProAward history (32 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | Provision of Software Support Services | Version1 Software Limited | - | €1.0M | |
| 22 April 2026 | Provision of Software Support Services | Version1 Software Limited | 4 | Open Procedure | €1.0M |
| 14 August 2025 | Provision of Commercial Cleaning Services to publicjobs | Grosvenor Services | - | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 20 February 2025 | Online Psychometric Tests with Remote Proctoring, for Recruitment and Selection | Sova Assessment | 2 | Open Procedure | €140k |
| 19 February 2025 | Executive Search Services for Appointments to the Boards of State Agencies | Odgers | 11 | Open Procedure | €480k |
| 13 March 2024 | The provision of an Online Occupational Personality Assessment Questionnaire | SHL Group Ltd | 4 | Open Procedure | €80k |
| 25 August 2023 | The provision of Senior in-depth Assessment for Appointments to the Civil and Public Service | Organisation Development and Research Ltd | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 3 August 2023 | Cloud (SaaS) Surveying Platform with Training and Customer Support - The provision of a fully GDPR-compliant cloud (SaaS) surveying platform for the Public Appointments Service | Qualtrics LLC | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 12 May 2023 | The provision of co-designed reasonable accommodation process (Assignment & On-boarding) | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 April 2023 | Provider - Managed Learning Management System | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 January 2023 | Supplier for Online Psychometric Tests at all levels with Remote Proctoring’ | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 January 2023 | Provision of a Supplier for hosting Online Tests with Remote Proctoring | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 15 July 2022 | Online Psychometric Tests & Hosting of Multi-method SJT with Remote Proctoring -Graduate Recruitment & Selection | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 9 June 2022 | Hosting of One-Way Video Interviews / a self-managed one-way video interview platform | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 25 February 2022 | Online tests with remote proctoring for Mid-Managers and Graduate Recruitment | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 9 January 2022 | Provision of Audio Visual Equipment and Support for the Public Appointments Service | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €400k |
| 5 November 2021 | An ED&I diagnostic review of both internal culture and policies and external operational recruitment processes for the Public Appointments Service | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 20 October 2021 | School Engagement Support and Competition Management | Real Nation | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 27 August 2021 | Provision of graduate tests and hosting of SJT and remote proctoring | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 28 April 2021 | Senior In Depth Assessment | Opes Business Partners Ltd | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 April 2021 | Work Sample/Job Simulation Assessment Exercises | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 18 December 2020 | Provision of Executive Search Services to the Public Appointments Service for appointments to the Boards of State Agencies | Signium Ireland | 13 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 17 November 2020 | Online Analysis Exercise/Work Sample/etray Exercise at First Line Manager/Middle Manager Level | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 1 October 2020 | IT System Maintenance, Support and Development | Version1 Software Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | €500k |
| 12 February 2020 | Provision of Video Interview Provider for Public Appointments Service | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 6 December 2017 | Business Process Improvement | undisclosed | 8 | Open Procedure | - |
| 4 August 2017 | Upgrade of the current PAS Oracle database environments | Version1 Software Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | €250k |
| 25 July 2017 | Design and web development services for the Public Appointments Service | Brand X | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 2 December 2016 | Consultancy Support in the Enhancement of the In-house Recruitment Application | TEKenable | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 3 October 2016 | RFT for Provision of IT Systems Maintenance, Support and Development | Version1 Software Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 22 July 2016 | Job Analysis of the role of Garda | undisclosed | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 20 October 2015 | Procurement of online psychometric tests for recruitment. Response deadline 5th November 2015 | undisclosed | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
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See TenderWatch ProLast updated 20 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2015-10-20. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.