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Cornerstone platform, content subscription and customer support

IEIreland · Dublin

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 11 November at 12:00 — 10 days left.
  2. You submit on eTenders Ireland — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Offer and evidence in: English.
  4. Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The Central Bank of Ireland needs Cornerstone, including the platform, content subscription and customer support. The Central Bank is therefore interested in responses from Tenderers who can provide the Cornerstone platform and content required, as well as the support and maintenance of the platform and content required.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€1,710,000
Published13 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

80 · Education & training48 · Software & IT systems72 · IT services
CPV 80420000 · 48190000 · 72268000 · 72261000 · 72220000 · 48000000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 23 months (6 awards, most recently July 2024) — by that rhythm the next award was due around June 2026. The last award went to Convergint Technologies Ireland Limited.n = 6
  • 25% of awards went to companies from abroad (347 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 4%.n = 347
  • 40% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (347 awards since 2013, spread over 152 companies). 60% went to new names.n = 347 awards since 2013
  • The median procedure drew 7 bids (235 procedures with a bid count); 9% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 7 bids.n = 235

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in English.

Eligibility analysis from the tender documents

Tender documents — direct download

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Annex 1
Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration
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Administrative conditions
The full notice, official wording

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
Ernst and Young192019–2026
Deloitte Ireland LLP172016–2026
emagine Expertise Ltd trading as emagine122019–2025
BearingPoint Ireland112019–2026
KPMG92014–2025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

2
2019
1
2020
1
2021
1
2023
2
2024
2
2026
9 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Wednesday 11 November at 12:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually 7 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 6 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 30 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 876 procedures). A normal window for this market.

Foreign bidders

In Ireland · Education & training, 82 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 2,429 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, France, Germany.

Submission language: English.

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 TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.
This procedure is published on 2 portals
Bids are submitted on eTenders Ireland — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
TEDNoticeeTenders IrelandSubmission portal
Put together the evidence — in English
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
To the procurement portal →Official notice on TED →
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