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Donegal County Council seeks the provision of Debt Management Legal Services
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 9 November at 12:00 — 8 days left.
- You submit on eTenders Ireland — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- Offer and evidence in: English.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
What the buyer is looking for
Donegal County Council require the successful legal provider to pursue Commercial and non Commercial debtors in the Income areas of Commercial Rates, Housing Rents, Housing Loans, Development Levies, Fire Charges and other Miscellaneous Debtors, using all appropriate legal mechanisms. Further details on customer numbers and debt is outlined in the attached documents. The successful legal provider must provide legal debt recovery services from initial warning letters/demands, deal with follow up communication as necessary, through proceedings and judgement up to and including all forms of enforcement. Donegal County Council also require the successful legal provider to act as a single point of contact with the defaulter, but under instruction from the Income Collection Section of Donegal County Council, who must be notified of all correspondence, received, and issued.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 2 bids (85 procedures with a bid count); 34% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 8 bids.n = 85
- The award came in at a median 123% of the estimated value (46 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too low here. Sector: 94%.n = 46
- 31% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (129 awards since 2021, spread over 86 companies). 69% went to new names.n = 129 awards since 2021
- 6% of awards went to companies from abroad (129 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 8%.n = 129
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Service Sells Customer Service Excellence Ireland | 4 | 2025 |
| Inishowen Development Partnership | 4 | 2024–2025 |
| FOROIGE_98034 | 3 | 2025–2026 |
| Donegal Local Development CLG | 3 | 2024–2026 |
| Source Civil Ltd | 3 | 2024–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 8 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 7,389 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 27 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.
Foreign bidders
In Ireland · Business services, 525 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 8,134 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Germany, United Kingdom.
Submission language: English.
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