Respond Tenders & Contract Awards
What Respond buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Respond has 2 open tenders accepting bids right now, most of them in Construction and Professional Services. 6 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Respond has awarded 1 contract totalling €300k in 2021. Award notices for this authority do not yet publish named suppliers.
Its three largest suppliers hold 0% of the disclosed value. No company has yet won here in more than one year, so the field is more open than most.
Public buyers rarely change supplier mid-contract. The opening is usually a new requirement, not a switch.
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Open now
6
Tender notices tracked
1
Contract awards
€300k
Disclosed value
€300k
Average per award
0
With named winner
Open Respond tenders
2 liveCFT – Residential Development Projects (40–100 Homes) – Cork City and County
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Specialist Consultancy Providers for Traditional Design Services and Technical Advisory Services Framework
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Deadline TBC: verify on the official notice.
Recently closed
Most recent 4 of 4Construction contract - Respond
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Call for Tenders from Developers for Social and Cost Rental Residential Schemes in Cork City and County Local Authority – 100 to 200 Homes
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Call for Tenders from Developers for Social and Cost Rental Residential Schemes in Dublin Local Authority Regions – 100 to 200 Homes
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Call for Tenders from Developers for Social and Cost Rental Residential Schemes in Dublin Local Authority Regions – greater than 200 homes
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Closed notices are retained as a signal of what this authority actually procures. Deadlines have passed, do not bid.
Most recent awards: 2021
Respond has 1 published contract award in 2021 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €300k across the 1 award with published values.
Top suppliers awarded
No named suppliers captured yet.
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | €300k |
By value band
- €144k-€360k1 · €300k
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 1
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 0
- Most contested award
- Request for Tenders relating to Communications and Marketing Services
- 6 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Request for Tenders relating to Communications and Marketing Services (6 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 1
Export 1 awarded contracts (CSV & JSON)
TenderWatch ProAward history (1 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2021 | Request for Tenders relating to Communications and Marketing Services | undisclosed | 6 | Open Procedure | €300k |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Procurement Intelligence
Respond is one of Ireland’s largest construction‑led Approved Housing Bodies (AHB), focused on the development and management of social housing and cost‑rental homes across the State.[1][2] It operates as a not‑for‑profit organisation but functions as a major public sector housing delivery partner to central and local government, with a substantial in‑house development and project management capability.[1][2] Respond currently has nearly 3,000 new homes in development at 21 sites under a €1.2 billion construction programme and expects to have 4,000 homes under construction by the end of 2024, indicating a very large and continuous capital works pipeline.[1] Its core procurement activity is in construction and allied professional services for multi‑unit residential schemes, along with associated infrastructure, design, and technical consultancy frameworks.[1][5]
Strategic Context
Respond’s current strategic priority is rapid delivery of social and cost‑rental homes at scale, with a pipeline of 2,925 homes in development and a target of 4,000 homes under construction by end‑2024 under a €1.2 billion construction programme.[1] To support this, Respond is establishing multi‑disciplinary frameworks to deliver high‑quality housing developments, signalling a shift toward structured, repeat‑use panels for design, project management, and construction services rather than isolated one‑off tenders.[5] Its role as a key AHB delivery partner under national housing policy and capital funding streams implies continued high levels of construction and professional services procurement in the medium term, contingent on Exchequer and Housing Finance Agency funding and broader government housing targets.[1][2]
Typical Suppliers
- Main building contractors with experience delivering multi‑phase social and cost‑rental housing schemes on fixed‑price contracts, often acting as design‑and‑build or traditional main contractors for schemes of 50+ units.[1][2]
- Multi‑disciplinary design and consultancy practices (architecture, civil/structural engineering, M&E, QS, PSDP) appointed to Respond’s multi‑disciplinary frameworks for housing development projects.[5]
- Regional developers or landowners able to deliver or sell turnkey social housing schemes and serviced residential land banks suitable for social housing developments.[2][8]
- Construction‑focused professional quantity surveying and cost management firms supporting Respond’s large construction programme and framework procurements.[5]
Supplier Tips
- Monitor eTenders and Respond’s own procurement notices for multi‑disciplinary framework and construction tenders; these panels are central to their delivery strategy and are likely to be the main route to winning repeat work across multiple housing schemes.[5]
- Emphasise proven delivery of social or cost‑rental housing at scale, robust cost control on fixed‑price contracts, and familiarity with AHB and public‑funded housing requirements (compliance, building regulations, BCAR, and social value obligations) in bids, as Respond is operating a €1.2 billion, multi‑site construction programme.[1][2]
- For smaller or specialist firms, consider partnering or forming consortia with larger contractors or multi‑disciplinary practices to access Respond frameworks, as these competitions typically favour teams that can cover full project lifecycles from planning and design through to handover of occupied social housing schemes.[5]
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Updated 21 June 2026
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| Contracting Authority | Respond · Irish public buyer |
| New tenders | Every new notice this buyer publishes, in your Wednesday email |
| Award history | Contract awards appear here as they are published on TED and eTenders |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Last updated 24 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2021-08-08. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.