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Provision of Consultant Judge for Carlow's Pride of Place Competition
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 16 November at 17:00 — 15 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
Carlow County Council are now seeking the services of an experienced consultant/judge to work on the Carlow’s Pride of Place Competition in partnership with the Community Section of Carlow County Council. So, we are seeking a consultant/ judge for a 12-month period (with an option to extend the arrangement for up to two further periods of twelve (12) months each, at the discretion of the Contracting Authority) who will have the following tasks to complete: • Support the development of the application and application process • Carry out, as a minimum, 2 workshops in a competition year • Judge the applicants that will involve visiting each group, town, village, and housing estate that have entered the competition for 2027 throughout County Carlow and complete a marking sheet for each. • Provide a written report, which will include feedback for each entrant in each of the categories they…
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… have entered. • Participate in launch and the award ceremony events including PR obligations which will include video participation, interviews and contribution to press releases. • Provide and attend an end-of-year evaluation of the competition year The consultant/judge will report to the Community Section/key contact person of Carlow County Council on a regular basis through meetings and as necessary, email and telephone communication throughout the implementation of this programme. Tenderers are required to detail in their response their approach to the mobilization and implementation plan to deliver the requirements as outlined in this Request for Tender. The selected Service Provider will be expected to provide their own appropriate transportation, to fulfil the competition requirements. The competition encourages sustainable practices that protect and enhance the local environment and surrounding biodiversity.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 3 bids (158 procedures with a bid count); 25% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 158
- 39% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (183 awards since 2013, spread over 102 companies). 61% went to new names.n = 183 awards since 2013
- 2% of awards went to companies from abroad (183 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 13%.n = 183
- The award came in at a median 87% of the estimated value (13 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here.n = 13
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cahill Crafts Ltd. | 11 | 2015–2025 |
| kevin thorpe ltd | 6 | 2014–2021 |
| HPMP Fire c/o High Precision Motor Products | 5 | 2021–2026 |
| Clodywood Civi Engineering Co. Ltd. | 5 | 2024–2025 |
| KPM Contracting Ltd T/A Carlow Insulation Solutions | 4 | 2013–2016 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 5 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 455 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 32 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 · Other services, 59 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 577 recorded awards) — mostly from France, United Kingdom, Germany.
Submission language: English.
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