Request for Tenders dated 01/10/2026 for the provision of maintenance services for Met Eireann’s environmental monitoring instrumentation and related infrastructure at Bray Head, Valentia Island
Ireland · Dublin 9 · how to bid here →
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 6 November at 10:00 — 33 days left.
- The submission point is stated in the notice (link on the right).
- Offer and evidence in: ENG.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis above: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (6 awards, most recently March 2025) — by that rhythm the next award was due around May 2025. The last award went to NVM Limited.n = 6
- 36% of awards went to companies from abroad (104 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 4%.n = 104
- 25% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (104 awards since 2013, spread over 63 companies). That is well below the sector norm (38%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 104 awards since 2013
- The median procedure drew 2 bids (88 procedures with a bid count); 39% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 4 bids.n = 88
- The award came in at a median 93% of the estimated value (10 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here.n = 10
From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 04/10/2026.
Foreign bidders
In Ireland · Repair & maintenance, 37 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,208 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, United Kingdom, France.
Submission language: ENG.
Typical field: median 1 (from 6 awards).
What the buyer is looking for
Met Éireann has committed significant resources to its programmes that support Ireland’s Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change (AC3) network and national research and monitoring infrastructure. These resources include buildings, equipment and staff that espouse international coordinated programmes which include; the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Programme, the “European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme” (EMEP), Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) and GHG emissions and Short Lived Climate Forcers (SLCF) monitoring. These programmes have developed incrementally and have adhered to best practice from pan-European and global monitoring programmes. Details of some of these programmes are included in Appendix 1 of the RFT. Met Éireann has a dedicated facility at Bray Head on Valentia Island, which is shortly to be verified as an ICOS Class 2 site, which hosts monitoring…
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… equipment for monitoring atmospheric gases and aerosols. The data can also be used for emissions verification, through an inverse modelling process, of greenhouse gases and pollutants and facilitate the calculation of Ireland’s emissions and Ireland’s greenhouse gas inventories and projections. The tender relates to the provision of support services, data validation, calibration and maintenance for some of the instrumentation and associated data streams.
Selection criteria — in the procurement documents
The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on the right), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in English.
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Contract
Who has won here before
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Vaisala Ltd | 4 | 2014–2019 |
| IBL Software Engineering spol. s r.o. | 4 | 2023–2025 |
| KISTERS | 3 | 2020–2025 |
| Leonardo GmbH | 3 | 2024–2025 |
| Sys-InfoR | 3 | 2021–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this
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