Tusla Child and Family Agency - contract awards
Who wins Tusla Child and Family Agency contracts, and how hard it is to break in
Tusla Child and Family Agency has awarded 38 contracts totalling €308.3M 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. 3 companies have won here in more than one year. 8 of the 31 awards with a published bid count drew a single bidder.
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38
Awards
€308.3M
Disclosed value
€11.0M
Average per award
24
With named winner
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.Halo Service Solutions2 · €2.4M
- 6.KPMG1 · €2.0M
- 7.The Pierce Partnership Trading as The Foundation1 · €1.3M
- 8.Oleeo Ltd1 · €1.0M
- 9.Micromail3 · €720k
- 10.Hegarty and Armstrong1 · €600k
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 | 6 | €9.8M |
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By value band
- €50k-€144k2 · €225k
- €144k-€360k6 · €1.4M
- €360k-€1M7 · €3.2M
- €1M-€5M9 · €14.3M
- Over €5M4 · €289.0M
Competition intensity
- Awards with bid data
- 31
- 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: 30
- Restricted Procedure: 1
Supplier intelligence
Top-3 suppliers account for 93.8% of €308.3M total disclosed value — a market-concentration signal.
| Supplier | Share | CRO status | Other bodies (join 4) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Rivers Ireland | 74.6% | Normal | — |
| ByrneWallace LLP | 13.9% | — | also won €139.8M across 17 other Irish bodies → |
| MCR Group | 5.2% | — | also won €860k across 5 other Irish bodies → |
| UCD School of Business | 1.1% | — | also won €24.2M across 2 other Irish bodies → |
| Halo Service Solutions | 0.8% | — | — |
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 | 3 | 2022, 2025, 2026 |
| Halo Service Solutions | 2 | 2023, 2026 |
Notices published in the last 90 days
| Published | Title | Winner | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2026 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Website Development and Support Services | undisclosed | €230k |
Award history (38 records)
| Date | Title | Winner | Bids | Procedure | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2026 | Request for Tenders for the Provision of Website Development and Support Services | undisclosed | — | €230k | |
| 4 June 2026 | IT Service Management Solution | Halo Service Solutions | — | €1.2M | |
| 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 | - |
| 9 February 2026 | Adobe Software (Acrobat Pro and Creative Cloud) and Aftercare Support | Micromail | — | €360k | |
| 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 |
Last updated 24 September 2026. Award dataset coverage begins 2020-04-26. Sentinel TED values (€0, €1) are excluded from totals and averages.
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