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Passenger Ferry between Inis Bigil, Co. Mayo, Ireland and the Mainland from 01/12/2026 to 30/11/2030

IEIreland · Dublin

Your path to submission

Deadline: 2 November at 13:00 — 1 day 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.

Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

Request for Tenders dated 12/10/2026 for the provision of a: Passenger Ferry between Inis Bigil, Co. Mayo, Ireland and the Mainland from 01/12/2026 to 30/11/2030

Contract

BuyerDepartment of Rural and Community Development_158143 →

TypeServices

Estimated value€329,729

Published14 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

60 · Transport services

CPV 60610000

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.

Company	Awards	Period
Match Marketing	2	2024
Vodafone_65874	1	2024

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

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

2024

2025

2026

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

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitewww.gov.ie

Deadline — Monday 2 November at 13:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 14 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 974 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 20 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 services, 19 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,168 recorded awards).

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.

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