Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Tenders & Contract Awards
What Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland has 2 open tenders accepting bids right now, most of them in Professional Services. 4 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland has awarded 29 contracts totalling €6.5M between 2013 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is H2 Learning Limited (3 awards).
Its three largest suppliers hold 68% of the disclosed value. 3 companies have won here in more than one year. 10 of the 27 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
29
Contract awards
€6.5M
Disclosed value
€406k
Average per award
25
With named winner
Open Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland tenders
2 liveCall for Tender for the Provision of an Economic and system impact evaluation of Research Ireland Funding fFor Research Ireland
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CFT to establish a To establish a Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Recruitment Services – Executive Search, General and Specialist Recruitment
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Recently closed
Most recent 2 of 2CFT for the provision of Consultancy Services
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Researcher to produce a written history of the Department of Justice between 1918 and 1968 For Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration.
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Awarded in 2026
Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland has 2 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €856k across the 2 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- H2 Learning Limited1 award
- Niamh Shaw Ltd1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.H2 Learning Limited3 · €2.4M
- 2.Forvis Mazars1 · €1.0M
- 3.Accountancy Solutions1 · €1.0M
- 4.PROFESSIONAL GRANITE CONSULTING LIMITED1 · €450k
- 5.Datapac ULC2 · €400k
- 6.Praesto Consulting IE Limited1 · €400k
- 7.Ernst and Young1 · €200k
- 8.Niamh Shaw Ltd2 · €120k
- 9.Z Consulting LLC1 · €120k
- 10.Micromail1 · €110k
Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | - |
| 2014 | 3 | €100k |
| 2015 | 2 | - |
| 2016 | 2 | €1.0M |
| 2018 | 1 | - |
| 2019 | 1 | €400k |
| 2020 | 1 | - |
| 2021 | 4 | €921k |
| 2022 | 2 | €1.4M |
| 2023 | 4 | €110k |
| 2024 | 2 | €650k |
| 2025 | 4 | €1.1M |
| 2026 | 2 | €856k |
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- €50k-€144k7 · €650k
- €144k-€360k1 · €200k
- €360k-€1M6 · €3.6M
- €1M-€5M2 · €2.0M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 27
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 10
- Most contested award
- Recruitment of Temporary Staff
- 15 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Web tender for SFI Discover Programme Websites (2 bids)
By procedure
- Open Procedure: 27
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 67.6% of €6.5M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| H2 Learning Limited | 36.8% | Normal | also won €2.8M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Forvis Mazars | 15.4% | Normal | also won €17.7M across 62 other Irish bodies → |
| Accountancy Solutions | 15.4% | Dissolved-20 years | also won €2.0M across 1 other Irish body → |
| PROFESSIONAL GRANITE CONSULTING LIMITED | 6.9% | Normal | also won €3.2M across 9 other Irish bodies → |
| Datapac ULC | 6.2% | - | also won €28.0M across 11 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| H2 Learning Limited | 3 | 2021, 2025, 2026 |
| Datapac ULC | 2 | 2015, 2019 |
| Niamh Shaw Ltd | 2 | 2025, 2026 |
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TenderWatch ProAward history (29 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 February 2026 | The provision of the services of an Education Specialist for Research Ireland. | H2 Learning Limited | - | €796k | |
| 12 February 2026 | Request for Quotation – CanSat Competition 2025/2026 | Niamh Shaw Ltd | - | €60k | |
| 10 November 2025 | CFT for the provision Advisory Services Regarding Research Integrity and Related Matters | Z Consulting LLC | 1 | Open Procedure | €120k |
| 17 October 2025 | The Provision of An Evaluation of Curious Minds, Research Ireland’s Primary School Science Programme for Research Ireland | Crowe | 7 | Open Procedure | €75k |
| 28 August 2025 | Request for Quotation – CanSat Competition 2025/2026 | Niamh Shaw Ltd | 1 | Open Procedure | €60k |
| 12 August 2025 | The provision of the services of an Education Specialist for Research Ireland. | H2 Learning Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | €796k |
| 19 December 2024 | Provision of Support in Organizational Transformation, Aligning Structure, Grading, Culture, and Values for Research Ireland | Ernst and Young | 4 | Open Procedure | €200k |
| 26 April 2024 | Website Development and Support Services | PROFESSIONAL GRANITE CONSULTING LIMITED | 8 | Open Procedure | €450k |
| 25 July 2023 | Provision for Adobe Licences | Micromail | 1 | Open Procedure | €110k |
| 30 March 2023 | SFI Data Analytics Services | Idiro Analytics | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 27 January 2023 | Provision of Zscaler Licences | BSI Professional Services (Ireland) Ltd. | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 25 January 2023 | Disaster Recovery as a Service | Ekco Cloud Ireland Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 7 October 2022 | Tableau Licenses for SFI | Praesto Consulting IE Limited | 2 | Open Procedure | €400k |
| 17 July 2022 | Consultancy services | Forvis Mazars | 9 | Open Procedure | €1.0M |
| 6 August 2021 | Provision of employee experience assessment / culture audit, benchmarking and consultancy services | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 July 2021 | Tender for the provision of an education specialist | H2 Learning Limited | 1 | Open Procedure | €796k |
| 16 July 2021 | Provision of A National Research Infrastructure Evaluation For Science Foundation Ireland | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 14 April 2021 | RFT for the provision of executive search services to support the recruitment campaign for the appointment of a new Director General for Science Foundation Ireland | undisclosed | 12 | Open Procedure | €125k |
| 22 October 2020 | Provision of Advisory Services Research Integrity | Z Consulting | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 March 2019 | Infrastructure and Technical Support Services | Datapac ULC | 5 | Open Procedure | €400k |
| 7 November 2018 | Booking of National Outdoor Advertising campaign | OMD | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 30 November 2016 | Recruitment of Temporary Staff | Accountancy Solutions | 15 | Open Procedure | €1.0M |
| 15 September 2016 | The provision of Legal Services (EU Law & Regulations) | undisclosed | 8 | Open Procedure | - |
| 10 June 2015 | Evaluation of Science Foundation Ireland/Enterprise Ireland Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) Programme | Frontline Consultants | 9 | Open Procedure | - |
| 26 February 2015 | 70 Office 365 E4 licenses | Datapac ULC | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
| 26 August 2014 | Research on Public Perceptions of STEM | millwardbrownlansdowne | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 31 July 2014 | Web tender for SFI Discover Programme Websites | Xwerx | 2 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 July 2014 | Education Specialist | H2 | 1 | Open Procedure | €100k |
| 24 September 2013 | Supply of SAN Storage | Datapac | 5 | Open Procedure | - |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Other major buyers
The most recent Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland tenders subscribers were alerted to:
- Call for Tender for the Provision of an Economic and system impact evaluation of Research Ireland Funding fFor Research Ireland2026-10-06
- CFT to establish a To establish a Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Recruitment Services – Executive Search, General and Specialist Recruitment2026-09-18
- CFT for the provision of Consultancy Services2026-08-24
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See TenderWatch ProLast updated 20 October 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2013-09-24. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.