St. Patrick's Festival Tenders & Contract Awards
What St. Patrick's Festival buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
St. Patrick's Festival has 3 open tenders accepting bids right now, most of them in Facilities and Construction. 3 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
St. Patrick's Festival has awarded 6 contracts totalling €820k between 2019 and 2025. Top supplier by disclosed value is Pulse Security Management (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 100% of the disclosed value. No company has yet won here in more than one year, so the field is more open than most. 2 of the 6 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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3
Open now
3
Tender notices tracked
6
Contract awards
€820k
Disclosed value
€410k
Average per award
6
With named winner
Open St. Patrick's Festival tenders
3 liveRequest for Tenders for the Provision of Radio Communications and CCTV for St. Patrick's Festival
St. Patrick's Festival
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RFT for the provision of Fencing and Temporary Structures Services for St. Patrick's Festival
St. Patrick's Festival
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Traffic Management Services for St. Patrick's Festival
St. Patrick's Festival
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Most recent awards: 2025
St. Patrick's Festival has 1 published contract award in 2025 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €120k across the 1 award with published values.
Top winners in 2025
- Harris Public Relations Ltd1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.Pulse Security Management1 · €700k
- 2.Harris Public Relations Ltd1 · €120k
- 3.Actavo1 · Not disclosed
- 4.Freeflow Traffic Management1 · Not disclosed
- 5.Cremorne Contractors Ltd T/A Sync and Swim1 · Not disclosed
- 6.Actavo Events (Ireland) Limited1 · Not disclosed
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | - |
| 2023 | 1 | - |
| 2024 | 1 | €700k |
| 2025 | 1 | €120k |
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- €50k-€144k1 · €120k
- €360k-€1M2 · €700k
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 6
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 2
- Most contested award
- RFT for the provision of PR services to St Patricks Festival
- 4 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: RFT for the Provision of the Design, Supply, Implementation, Monitoring and Management of a full Traffic Management Plan for St. Patrick's Festival (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 6
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 100% of €1.4M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulse Security Management | 49.3% | Normal | also won €5.6M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Actavo | 42.3% | Normal | also won €359.8M across 16 other Irish bodies → |
| Harris Public Relations Ltd | 8.5% | Normal | - |
| Freeflow Traffic Management | 0% | - | also won €8.5M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Cremorne Contractors Ltd T/A Sync and Swim | 0% | - | - |
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TenderWatch ProAward history (6 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2025 | RFT for the provision of PR services to St Patricks Festival | Harris Public Relations Ltd | 4 | Open Procedure | €120k |
| 8 October 2024 | Invitation to tender for the provision of security services to the St Patrick's Festival Dublin | Pulse Security Management | 2 | Open Procedure | €700k |
| 6 December 2023 | Framework for the supply and commissioning of fencing and temporary structures for St Patricks Festival in Dublin, Ireland | Actavo | 1 | Open Procedure | €600k |
| 19 November 2019 | RFT for the Provision of the Design, Supply, Implementation, Monitoring and Management of a full Traffic Management Plan for St. Patrick's Festival | Freeflow Traffic Management | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 22 October 2019 | Appointment of a Marketing & Communications Consultant for Féilte Dhuibh Linne Cuideachta Faoi Theorainn Ráthaíochta | Cremorne Contractors Ltd T/A Sync and Swim | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 4 October 2019 | Request for Tender for Provision of Fencing and Temporary Structures for Féilte Dhuibh Linne Cuideachta Faoi Theorainn Ráthaíochta t/a St. Patrick's Festival | Actavo Events (Ireland) Limited | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Procurement Intelligence
St. Patrick's Festival is an Irish festival organisation responsible for planning and delivering large-scale St Patrick's Day cultural events, primarily in Dublin. Its procurement profile is event-led and seasonal, with requirements spanning temporary construction, fencing and structures, security, traffic management, production, communications, and event operations. Available award data records six contracts worth approximately €820,000 between 2019 and 2025, including awards to Actavo, Pulse Security Management, and Harris Public Relations. Current open opportunities indicate an estimated pipeline of approximately €1.315 million across three tenders, with construction-related temporary infrastructure and transport-related traffic management among the principal categories.
Strategic Context
Procurement is concentrated around preparation for the 2027 festival cycle, with current notices covering fencing and temporary structures, traffic management, and festival delivery or production services. Recent procurement shows a recurring need for safety infrastructure, crowd control, security, transport coordination, and event delivery capacity rather than conventional long-term capital works; the €680,000 fencing and temporary structures requirement is scheduled to close on 22 October 2026, while a Tallaght 2027 festival delivery contract was advertised at €190,000.
Typical Suppliers
- Temporary-event infrastructure specialists such as Actavo, which has won fencing and temporary-structures work valued at approximately €600,000
- Security and crowd-management contractors such as Pulse Security Management, awarded festival security services worth approximately €700,000
- Traffic-management and road-event contractors providing traffic plans, stewarding, signage, barriers, and traffic control
- Festival production and event-management companies capable of delivering parades, live music infrastructure, health and safety, and project management
- Public-relations and communications agencies such as Harris Public Relations, awarded festival PR services in 2025
Supplier Tips
- Register on eTenders and monitor the authority under both St. Patrick's Festival and Féilte Dhuibh Linne Cuideachta Faoi Theorainn Ráthaíochta; submit clarification questions early because opportunities are tightly linked to fixed annual festival dates.
- Demonstrate comparable high-footfall event experience, detailed health-and-safety and traffic-management arrangements, rapid installation and removal capacity, and evidence of insurance, resilience, and statutory compliance.
- For larger infrastructure competitions, consider partnering with specialist subcontractors for barriers, temporary structures, transport management, security, or event production so the bid can cover the full operational requirement.
Updated 18 October 2026
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See TenderWatch ProLast updated 20 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2019-10-04. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.