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Multi Operator Framework for Project Managers with Design/Technical Consultants for Educational Accommodation

IEIreland · Dublin 1

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 11 November at 16:00 — 11 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 Project Management Services that are being procured under this competition are for the organising, overseeing and management, procurement and delivery of SEN refurbishing within existing school buildings and/or the provision of modular accommodation for SEN and/or mainstream classroom and ancillary space with associated site works. The services will include both the management and the delivery of the services. The successful Project Management Firm shall receive a brief from the Department of Education and Youth to refurbish existing spaces within a school for a new purpose or to deliver a new accommodation on the grounds of an existing school or a combination of both. The required Project Management service will comprise of three parts A, B and C. Part A will consist of the successful Project management firm and their Multi-Disciplinary Design Team (MDDT) visiting the school to…

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… assess the most economically advantageous location to the deliver the brief while identify the capacity of existing services identify risks and preparing an order of magnitude costing. Part B is only applicable to projects where the brief requires refurbishment of existing school spaces by contractors using the “Framework Agreement for Term Maintenance, Refurbishment and Upgrade Construction Works to Educational Facilities” (PW CF-11) which will be referred to as the “Refurbishing Framework” in the remainder of this document. As an Employer led design project the PM and their MDDT will develop the detailed design drawings and supervise the contractor during construction Part C will only be applicable to projects where the project brief requires additional accommodation to be delivered via the Departments of Education and Youth’s “Multi-Operator Framework Agreement for the Provision of MMC Pre-Manufactured Modular 3D Volumetric Educational Accommodation” (PW CF-02) Which will be referred to as the “Modular Framework” in the remainder of this document. As a design build contract the PM’s Multidisciplinary Design Team will become Technical Designers as they develop the preliminary brief design that the contractors will take to complete the detailed design and construct.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€100,000,000
Published20 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Framework agreement

Type of service

71 · Architecture & engineering
CPV 71000000 · 71200000 · 71300000 · 71520000 · 71530000 · 71540000 · 71541000 · 71320000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 4 months (102 awards, most recently July 2026) — the next award is due around December 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to i3PT Certification Association_95120.n = 102
  • 24% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (212 awards since 2014, spread over 156 companies). That is well below the sector norm (38%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 212 awards since 2014
  • The award came in at a median 88% of the estimated value (13 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 97%.n = 13
  • The median procedure drew 6 bids (189 procedures with a bid count); 11% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 6 bids.n = 189
  • 3% of awards went to companies from abroad (212 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 5%.n = 212

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 25/10/2026.

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

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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
Geaney Engineering Consultants62019–2024
Kenny Lyons and Associates52019–2024
CPAC Modular Limited32018–2026
Hayes Higgins Partnership32024–2025
O'Connor Sutton Cronin32024–2025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

16
2019
39
2020
30
2021
34
2022
15
2023
29
2024
19
2025
6
2026
188 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 — Wednesday 11 November at 16:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually 8 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 80 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 23 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 863 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In Ireland · Architecture & engineering, 396 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 8,485 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, Spain, France.

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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