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Design, Construction, Commissioning and Delivery of Purpose Built Pilot Boat

IEIreland

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 23 November at 12:00 — 22 days left.
  2. You submit on eTenders Ireland — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The Port of Waterford are inviting tenders for the Supply, Design Construction, Commissioning and Delivery of a Purpose-built Pilot Boat as specified in the Procurement Documents.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€1,500,000
Published26 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

34 · Transport equipment63 · Transport support services
CPV 34500000 · 63722000 · 34521000

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.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
Safehaven Marine12019
John Tinnelly and Sons Ireland Ltd12013
Roadmaster Caravans Ltd12014
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

1
2019
3
2026
4 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.
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Deadline — Monday 23 November at 12:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 2,391 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 28 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 876 procedures). A normal window for this market.

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

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
Goes directly to this tender on eTenders Ireland. The full specification and all annexes are there.
Put together the evidence
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via eTenders Ireland before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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