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Supply, Delivery and Commissioning of Marine Engines, Gearboxes and Related Engine Parts for Passenger Vessel for Donegal Bay Waterbus

IEIrelandBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

Deadline: 9 November at 12:00 — 8 days left.
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What the buyer is looking for

Donegal Bay Waterbus is seeking to award a contract for the supply, delivery and commissioning of marine engines, gearboxes and related engine parts, for installation by a third party, on its passenger ferry which operates around Donegal Bay and invites proposals from suitably qualified economic operators to meet its requirements. The supplies and services being procured under this tender process are eligible for grant-aid under the joint-funded E.U. / Irish Exchequer LEADER Programme 2023 -2027. Full details of the requirements are set out in the tender documents.

Contract

BuyerDonegal Town Enterprise Scheme

TypeServices

Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures

Published16 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

34 · Transport equipment

CPV 34311000 · 34310000 · 34321200 · 34512100 · 34522000

Clement

Too big for you alone? Consortium or reliance on capacity: a partner's references and turnover count (Art. 63 Dir. 2014/24) — cross-border too.

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

Company	Awards	Period
Flow Marine Limited	2	2025
SOUTH SHORE MARINE AND DIESEL LTD	1	2025

From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

2025

2026

8 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Deadline — Monday 9 November at 12:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 3 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 24 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 876 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

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Foreign bidders

In Ireland · Transport equipment, 110 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 2,614 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, Germany, France.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents

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Put together the evidence

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Submit via eTenders Ireland before the deadline

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