Tusla Child and Family Agency Tenders & Contract Awards
What Tusla Child and Family Agency buys, who wins its contracts, and how suppliers get seen
Tusla Child and Family Agency has 2 open tenders accepting bids right now, most of them in IT Services and Professional Services. 4 tender notices have come from this buyer since monitoring began.
Tusla Child and Family Agency has awarded 36 contracts totalling €306.7M between 2020 and 2026. Top supplier by disclosed value is Five Rivers Ireland (1 award).
Its three largest suppliers hold 94% of the disclosed value. 2 companies have won here in more than one year. 8 of the 32 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.
Follow the companies already winning Tusla Child and Family Agency contracts
2
Open now
4
Tender notices tracked
36
Contract awards
€306.7M
Disclosed value
€11.8M
Average per award
23
With named winner
Tusla Child and Family Agency
| Contracting Authority | Tusla Child and Family Agency · Active Irish public buyer |
| Top Incumbent Winners | Five Rivers Ireland · ByrneWallace LLP |
| Extended Panel (#3+) | MCR Group · UCD School of Business · KPMG |
| CRO & Spend Radar | CRO B1/B10/C1 status, supplier concentration share, and >EUR 20k purchase-order spend |
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Open Tusla Child and Family Agency tenders
2 liveTender for the provision of close personal protection services to Tusla
Tusla Child and Family Agency
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Provision of Social Media Management Platform
Tusla Child and Family Agency
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Recently closed
Most recent 2 of 2Request for Tenders for the provision of an Electronic Quality Management Software (eQMS) System
Tusla Child and Family Agency
Bespoke Panel Arrangement for the Provision of Children’s Residential Services to complement existing community based residential services operated by/on Behalf Of Tusla - The Child and Family Agency
Tusla Child and Family Agency
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Awarded in 2026
Tusla Child and Family Agency has 4 published contract awards in 2026 tracked on Tenderwatch, worth €8.2M across the 2 awards with published values.
Top winners in 2026
- MCR Group2 awards
- Sentinel Risk1 award
- Fusio Ltd1 award
Top suppliers awarded
- 1.Five Rivers Ireland1 · €230.0M
- 2.ByrneWallace LLP1 · €43.0M
- 3.MCR Group3 · €16.0M
- 4.UCD School of Business1 · €3.5M
- 5.KPMG1 · €2.0M
- 7.Halo Service Solutions1 · €1.2M
- 8.Oleeo Ltd1 · €1.0M
- 9.Hegarty and Armstrong1 · €600k
- 10.Mason Hayes and Curran LLP1 · €390k
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Year-by-year
| Year | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | €2.5M |
| 2021 | 6 | €232.8M |
| 2022 | 6 | €450k |
| 2023 | 4 | €2.1M |
| 2024 | 7 | €49.8M |
| 2025 | 7 | €10.9M |
| 2026 | 4 | €8.2M |
How Tusla Child and Family Agency Evaluates Tenders (Price vs Quality Scorecard)
Across 35 graded eTenders notices, Tusla Child and Family Agency evaluates 91.4% of competitions on Price & Quality (MEAT) and 8.6% on Lowest Price Only.
Primary Regime
91.4% MEAT
32 MEAT · 3 Price Only
Typical Weighting Split
30% Price / 70% Quality
OGP IT Services MEAT benchmark
Typical Contract Term
36 months
Median across 62 contracts (avg 35.9m)
Contracts Expiring in the Next 6 Months (180-Day Re-Tender Window)
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By value band
- €50k-€144k2 · €225k
- €144k-€360k6 · €1.4M
- €360k-€1M6 · €2.9M
- €1M-€5M8 · €13.2M
- Over €5M4 · €289.0M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 32
- Sole bidder (no competition)
- 8
- Most contested award
- External Reviews from Social Work Investigations and Complaints Investigations and Reviews
- 29 bids received
Least contested above 1 bid: Legal Services Contract Management and Administration Services (2 bids)
By procedure
- Direct Invite – Mini-Competition: 3
- Open Procedure: 31
- Restricted Procedure: 1
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 94.2% of €306.7M total disclosed value, a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Rivers Ireland | 75% | Normal | - |
| ByrneWallace LLP | 14% | - | also won €138.4M across 17 other Irish bodies → |
| MCR Group | 5.2% | - | also won €430k across 5 other Irish bodies → |
| UCD School of Business | 1.1% | - | also won €24.2M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| KPMG | 0.7% | - | also won €14.2M across 37 other Irish bodies → |
Repeat winners
Suppliers awarded contracts by Tusla Child and Family Agency in two or more separate years, from published award notices.
| Supplier | Awards | Active years |
|---|---|---|
| MCR Group | 3 | 2025, 2026 |
| Micromail | 2 | 2022, 2025 |
Buyer Competition & Concentration Scorecard (Framework-Deduplicated)
Computed from 36 published OGP contract awards (CC-BY 4.0), deduplicating multi-lot framework ceiling repeats.
Single-Bidder Award Rate
25%
8 of 32 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender
Top Supplier Spend Share
76.5%
Top 3 suppliers: 96.2% across 17 winners
Winner Concentration (HHI)
6,093
0 to 10,000 scale on deduplicated spend (<1,500 unconcentrated)
Export 36 awarded contracts (CSV & JSON)
TenderWatch ProAward history (36 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 February 2026 | General Security Services | MCR Group | - | €8.0M | |
| 17 February 2026 | General security | MCR Group | - | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 17 February 2026 | Close Protection Security | Sentinel Risk | - | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 27 January 2026 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Website Development and Support Services | Fusio Ltd | 14 | Open Procedure | €230k |
| 15 December 2025 | Multi Supplier Framework Agreements for the Provision of Accounting, Audit and Financial Services to the Irish Public Sector. Lot 4 - Audit Services - Estimated Contract Value in excess of €140,000 | Crowleys DFK | - | Direct Invite – Mini-Competition | - |
| 14 September 2025 | Request for Tenders for the provision of Training on Risk and Protectiveness Assessments required in CASP / Adult cohort assessments | Leonard Consultancy | 1 | Open Procedure | €100k |
| 25 July 2025 | Online Recruitment System | Oleeo Ltd | 6 | Open Procedure | €1.0M |
| 24 June 2025 | Provision of Security Services and Close Protection Security Services Tusla Child and Family Agency | MCR Group | 5 | Open Procedure | €8.0M |
| 6 May 2025 | Adobe Software (Acrobat Pro and Creative Cloud) and Aftercare Support | Micromail | 4 | Open Procedure | €360k |
| 5 May 2025 | Provision of Design and Print services | The Pierce Partnership Trading as The Foundation | 7 | Restricted Procedure | €1.3M |
| 15 April 2025 | Provision of Trauma Informed Education Training | The WellSchools Network | 6 | Open Procedure | €150k |
| 8 November 2024 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Childcare Legal Services to The Child and Family Agency (Tusla) for Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan | Hegarty and Armstrong | 1 | Open Procedure | €600k |
| 18 October 2024 | Request for Tenders for the provision of ongoing delivery of Tusla’s Leadership Development Programmes and related Consultancy Services | UCD School of Business | 6 | Open Procedure | €3.5M |
| 16 August 2024 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Childcare Legal Services to The Child and Family Agency (Tusla) | ByrneWallace LLP | 12 | Open Procedure | €43.0M |
| 9 July 2024 | Legal Services Contract Management and Administration Services | KPMG | 1 | Open Procedure | €2.0M |
| 8 May 2024 | RFT for the provision of Internal Audit Software for TUSLA | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | €220k |
| 14 January 2024 | Childcare Legal Services Tusla Galway/Roscommon | Dermot G O'Donovan Solicitors | 1 | Open Procedure | €350k |
| 8 January 2024 | Mediation Skills Training | Mediator Academy - Glyndwr Media Limited | 3 | Open Procedure | €125k |
| 8 July 2023 | IT Service Management Solution | Halo Service Solutions | 3 | Open Procedure | €1.2M |
| 1 July 2023 | Tender for the provision of Childcare Legal Services for Separated Children seeking International Protection to The Child and Family Agency | Mason Hayes and Curran LLP | 3 | Open Procedure | €390k |
| 5 April 2023 | Fire Safety Consultants Service | FCC Fire Cert Ltd. | 5 | Open Procedure | €250k |
| 28 January 2023 | Estates Fire Safety Consultants | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | €250k |
| 14 August 2022 | Co-design and delivery of a development programme to middle managers | undisclosed | 5 | Open Procedure | €450k |
| 12 August 2022 | Consultancy and support on the strategic development of coaching, at the levels of culture, structure and practice | Executive Coaching Solutions Limited T/A Kingstown College | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 24 January 2022 | Adobe Pro Licences | Micromail | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 21 January 2022 | Request for Tenders (RFT) for the provision of Endpoint Protection Solution and MDR Service | undisclosed | 4 | Open Procedure | - |
| 13 January 2022 | Request for Tenders (RFT) for the provision of NDR, Email and SAAS Security Services | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 7 January 2022 | Request for Tenders (RFT) for the provision of Secure Web Gateway | undisclosed | 3 | Open Procedure | - |
| 23 December 2021 | Supply, Install and Maintain Vulnerability and Patch Management Solution | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 22 December 2021 | Request for Tenders (RFT) for the provision of Backup Infrastructure Hardware/Support,the supply of CommVault HyperScale Licences, Cloud Object Storage, Office 365 Backup and Managed Service. | undisclosed | 1 | Open Procedure | - |
| 20 November 2021 | Buildings Conditions Survey | undisclosed | 13 | Open Procedure | €500k |
| 27 August 2021 | The Child and Family Agency (Tusla) invites tenders to this request for tenders from suitably qualified and experienced Non-Statutory Providers for the provision of Private Foster Care Services | Five Rivers Ireland | 6 | Open Procedure | €230.0M |
| 10 February 2021 | Legal services relating to childcare (including education welfare services, early year services, domestic violence applications and criminal matters related to the minor) for Co. Kerry. | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | €570k |
| 3 February 2021 | Legal Services Contract Management and Administration Services | undisclosed | 2 | Open Procedure | €1.7M |
| 3 May 2020 | Provision of Design and Print services | undisclosed | 19 | Open Procedure | €1.0M |
| 26 April 2020 | External Reviews from Social Work Investigations and Complaints Investigations and Reviews | undisclosed | 29 | Open Procedure | €1.5M |
Open-market vs limited-competition mix · average bids · SME-access ratio
Procurement Intelligence
Tusla Child and Family Agency is Ireland’s statutory agency for child protection and welfare, family support, alternative care, and related services. It operates at national scale with a 2026 gross non-capital determination of €1.437795 billion and a centrally led procurement function supporting decentralised budget holders. Its procurement profile spans residential and foster care, accommodation and related social services, legal and professional services, ICT, cybersecurity, software licensing, estates, facilities, rentals, and other operational goods and services. Current procurement is governed by the Corporate Procurement Plan 2025–2027, the Multi-Annual Procurement Plan, and Tusla financial and national procurement rules.[1][2][5]
Strategic Context
Tusla has allocated €35 million for capital expenditure in 2026, comprising €28 million for estates and €7 million for ICT, with identified combined estates and ICT capital funding of €188 million for 2026–2030. Procurement priorities include renewing contracts for residential care, private foster care, legal services, and ICT, while a revised operating model will gradually devolve some procurement responsibilities to local service areas under continued central oversight. Sustainability and social-inclusion criteria are also being embedded, and the agency expects to review its corporate procurement plan through the 2026 multi-annual planning process.[1]
Typical Suppliers
- Residential-care providers, foster-care organisations, supported-accommodation operators, and specialist child and family social-service providers
- Private healthcare and social-care staffing providers, including residential provision suppliers such as BAIG & MIRZA Health Services Ltd trading as Kare Plus[5]
- ICT vendors, systems integrators, Microsoft licensing partners, application-development providers, and cybersecurity consultancies[7][9][10]
- Legal, regulatory, audit, management-consulting, training, and other professional-services firms
- Estates, property, facilities-management, accommodation, rental, and construction suppliers, including firms providing premises and equipment rentals[5]
Supplier Tips
- Monitor eTenders using Tusla as the contracting authority and filter by social services, ICT, professional services, estates, and facilities categories; Tusla states that competitions over €25,000 and subsequent contract awards are published there.[2][3]
- Position bids against the 2025–2027 Corporate Procurement Plan and 2026–2030 estates and ICT capital programme, demonstrating delivery capacity, safeguarding quality, value for money, sustainability, and social-inclusion outcomes.[1]
- Engage early with Tusla’s National Procurement Unit and relevant local service areas, while allowing for formal central governance: the 2026 operating-model changes aim to improve local responsiveness but retain procurement planning, compliance, tendering, and oversight controls.[1]
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Updated 8 November 2026
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Last updated 10 November 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2020-04-26. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.