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Garment and Textile Consultancy Services to the Irish Defence Forces and Civil Defence

IEIreland · Newbridge

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 17 November at 17:30 — 16 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 Irish Defence Forces and the Civil Defence are going to tender for the provision of Garment and Textile Consultancy Services

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€1,480,000
Published19 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Place of performanceDublin

Type of service

79 · Business services71 · Architecture & engineering73 · R&D services
CPV 79418000 · 79415200 · 71600000 · 73400000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • The median procedure drew 2 bids (63 procedures with a bid count); 32% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 8 bids.n = 63
  • 8% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (110 awards since 2023, spread over 97 companies). That is well below the sector norm (34%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 110 awards since 2023
  • The award came in at a median 88% of the estimated value (17 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 94%.n = 17
  • 15% of awards went to companies from abroad (110 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 8%.n = 110

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 — via the ESPD

The buyer states in the notice that eligibility is proven through the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD); the concrete requirements are in the tender documents. 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
ARQ Asset Solutions32024
Mariteq Solutions Ltd.22024
Arcon Consultants22024–2025
Rose Aviation22024–2025
Electrogen Int. Ltd22025
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
2024
4
2025
1
2026
7 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 — Tuesday 17 November at 17:30

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 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 · 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.

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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