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Request for Tender for Website Hosting, Development, Support and Maintenance of the Contracting Authority’s Websites
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 9 December at 12:00 — 38 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
The Department currently owns, supports and maintains 43 websites via the Digital Transformation Unit. These sites cover a range of Business Activities from Housing, Heritage, Fire Safety, Local Government Oversight and supporting Ireland’s Electoral Processes. Most of these sites are WordPress based or static html (whereby WordPress is used to generate a site). The Department is seeking to award a contract to a single service provider to provide website hosting, support and future website development assistance for the Department’s websites. In addition, to supporting the Department’s websites online, there will be a requirement to provide an onsite support presence, along with The Digital Transformation Unit (DTU), on the run up to and during events such as the Presidential election and/or Referenda or at any other times as required by the DTU.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (16 awards, most recently August 2026) — by that rhythm the next award was due around October 2026. The last award went to Compass Informatics Ltd.n = 16
- The median procedure drew 2 bids (550 procedures with a bid count); 28% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 550
- 50% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (630 awards since 2013, spread over 287 companies). 50% went to new names.n = 630 awards since 2013
- The award came in at a median 95% of the estimated value (73 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 88%.n = 73
- 8% of awards went to companies from abroad (630 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 15%.n = 630
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KRCEcological Ltd | 15 | 2021–2026 |
| Wetland Surveys Ireland | 14 | 2021–2026 |
| Ecolab Ltd | 12 | 2024–2026 |
| BEC Consultants Ltd | 12 | 2021–2026 |
| APEM Limited | 10 | 2024–2025 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 12 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 52 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 876 procedures). Much more generous than usual — time for a thorough bid rather than a quick one.
Foreign bidders
In Ireland · IT services, 532 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 4,661 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, United Kingdom.
Submission language: English.
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