State Examinations Commission Tenders & Contract Awards
What State Examinations Commission buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
State Examinations Commission has 1 open tender accepting bids right now, most of them in Professional Services and Defence. 2 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
State Examinations Commission has awarded 12 contracts totalling €11.2M between 2014 and 2025. Top supplier by disclosed value is AxisPPM (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 18% of the disclosed value. No company has yet won here in more than one year, so the field is more open than most. 3 of the 11 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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Tender notices tracked
12
Contract awards
€11.2M
Disclosed value
€1.9M
Average per award
10
With named winner
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Most recent awards: 2025
State Examinations Commission has 4 published contract awards in 2025 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €780k across the 3 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2025
- Combined Media Company1 award
- Open Sky Data Systems1 award
- Mail Metrics1 award
- University of Limerick1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.AxisPPM1 · €750k
- 2.Open Sky Data Systems1 · €600k
- 3.University of Limerick1 · €100k
- 4.Mail Metrics1 · €80k
- 5.Combined Media Company1 · Not disclosed
- 6.Colorman (Ireland) Limited1 · Not disclosed
- 7.Docket and Form International Limited1 · Not disclosed
- 8.DC Kavanagh1 · Not disclosed
- 9.Boylan Print Group1 · Not disclosed
- 10.Vodafone1 · Not disclosed
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | - |
| 2016 | 1 | - |
| 2018 | 1 | €8.9M |
| 2019 | 1 | - |
| 2020 | 1 | - |
| 2023 | 2 | €1.6M |
| 2025 | 4 | €780k |
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- €50k-€144k2 · €180k
- €360k-€1M4 · €2.1M
- Over €5M1 · €8.9M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 11
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 3
- Most contested award
- Request for Tender for the provision of services for research on the use of generative AI in the context of teacher-based and external central assessment for high-stakes certification of achievements.
- 7 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Printing and delivering of Formulae and Tables Book (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 12
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 18.1% of €12.1M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Media Company | 6.9% | Normal | - |
| AxisPPM | 6.2% | - | - |
| Open Sky Data Systems | 5% | Normal | also won €34.2M across 15 other Irish bodies → |
| University of Limerick | 0.8% | Strike Off Listed | also won €11.0M across 5 other Irish bodies → |
| Mail Metrics | 0.7% | Normal | also won €8.8M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
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TenderWatch ProAward history (12 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2025 | Examiner Video Conferencing and attendant services (Lot 1), Hosting and Maintenance of the Examiner Recruitment and Training Websites, Social Media updates, and Videos, and attendant services (Lot 2). | Combined Media Company | 3 | Open Procedure | €830k |
| 1 August 2025 | Design, development and hosting of an online recruitment portal for contract staff with the ongoing portal development and maintenance and provision of associated support services to the SEC | Open Sky Data Systems | 3 | Open Procedure | €600k |
| 13 February 2025 | For the supply of Security Feature Paper for the State Examinations Commission | Mail Metrics | 2 | Open Procedure | €80k |
| 8 January 2025 | Request for Tender for the provision of services for research on the use of generative AI in the context of teacher-based and external central assessment for high-stakes certification of achievements. | University of Limerick | 7 | Open Procedure | €100k |
| 12 November 2023 | Replication of Compact Disks (CDs) and Replication of Digital Versatile Disc (DVDs) | AxisPPM | 1 | Open Procedure | €750k |
| 16 July 2023 | ICT Hardware and Software Managed Support and Managed Services. | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | €800k |
| 14 August 2020 | RFT for the Supply of Scannable Coursework Booklets | Colorman (Ireland) Limited | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 26 November 2019 | RFT Security Paper | Docket and Form International Limited | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 22 December 2018 | Scanning and Online Marking | undisclosed | - | Open Procedure | €8.9M |
| 17 October 2016 | RFT-LC & JC Answer Books | DC Kavanagh | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 26 September 2014 | Printing and delivering of Formulae and Tables Book | Boylan Print Group | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 18 September 2014 | REQUEST FOR TENDERS for LAN speed WAN connectivity | Vodafone | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
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See TenderWatch ProLast updated 20 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2014-09-18. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.