Education Procurement Briefing
Weekly Overview
This week's Irish Education sector procurement activity is broad and high-value, spanning infrastructure works, professional services, training delivery, and specialist equipment. The pipeline is dominated by large ETB-issued framework contracts for training and skills programmes, with Longford and Westmeath ETB leading at €15 million for Business, Administration, Financial Services and Management Skills, and Waterford and Wexford ETB issuing an €8.6 million contract for Business, ICT and Digital Skills. Together these two opportunities account for the majority of total spend visible this week and signal continued ETB investment in workforce upskilling across the regions.
Key Opportunities
| Tender | Value |
|---|---|
Business, Administration Skills, Financial Services Skills, Management Skills Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board At €15 million this is the highest-value tender in this week's pipeline, representing a major multi-lot training delivery framework likely to attract national training providers and professional services firms with ETB contracting experience. | €15,000,000 |
Business, ICT and Digital Skills (General and Technical) Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board An €8.6 million opportunity with an imminent deadline, this contract offers substantial revenue for training organisations with capacity to deliver blended ICT and digital skills programmes across the Waterford and Wexford region. | €8,600,000 |
2026/07 - The provision of Psychotherapy and Counselling Services and Clinical Psychologists to LMETB schools and centres Louth and Meath Education and Training Board This contract reflects growing ETB investment in student mental health infrastructure and is well-suited to clinical services providers or multidisciplinary health consultancies with existing public sector frameworks. | €750,000 |
Design and Delivery of an AI Upskilling Programme for Engineers Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet A timely and competitively differentiated opportunity in AI-focused professional upskilling, this tender will attract specialist learning design firms and technology training providers targeting Ireland's engineering and tech workforce. | €320,000 |
The Supply of Classroom Equipment and Materials for Home Economics Studies to Post Primary Schools and other City of Dublin ETB Centres City of Dublin Education and Training Board A sizeable equipment supply contract covering multiple CDETB schools and centres, this tender offers a strong pipeline opportunity for specialist educational equipment distributors with post-primary sector experience. | €600,000 |
Market Trends
ETB-issued skills and training frameworks dominate by value this week, with Longford-Westmeath and Waterford-Wexford ETBs collectively tendering over €23 million in workforce development contracts, underscoring the continued expansion of Further Education and Training (FET) commissioning across Irish regions.
Digital and AI upskilling is emerging as a distinct procurement category, with separate contracts from Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet for AI for engineers, Limerick and Clare ETB for Agentic Automation and Software Process Automation, and WWETB for ICT and Digital Skills, reflecting accelerating demand for technology-oriented training provision.
Student welfare and inclusion services are attracting growing contract values, evidenced by LMETB's €750,000 counselling and clinical psychology tender and Mary Immaculate College's €320,000 disability support hours contract, indicating that education bodies are increasingly formalising and scaling pastoral and access services through competitive procurement.
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