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Housing Finance Agency RFT for Legal Services
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 20 November at 12:00 — 19 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 Housing Finance Agency (HFA) invites tenders from suitably qualified legal service providers for the provision of legal services across three lots. The services include legal support relating to the HFA’s lending activities and general legal advice and support across its corporate, commercial, governance, regulatory and operational activities. Tenderers may apply for one, two or all three lots.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 2 bids (23 procedures with a bid count); 30% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 8 bids.n = 23
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 10 months (13 awards, most recently April 2026) — the next award is due around February 2027 by that rhythm. The last award went to Vincent Finnegan Ltd.n = 13
- 27% of awards went to companies from abroad (30 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 8%.n = 30
- 38% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (30 awards since 2014, spread over 15 companies). 62% went to new names.n = 30 awards since 2014
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PKF Brenson Lawlor Limited | 4 | 2015–2025 |
| Fabrik Creative Media | 3 | 2015–2021 |
| Vincent Finnegan Ltd. | 2 | 2026 |
| IB Software and Solutions (Ireland) Limited | 2 | 2023–2024 |
| EVAD Technology Group Limited | 2 | 2024 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 11 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.
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