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Concession Contract for the Operation and Management of Café and Catering Services at The Lakeside Café, at Tralee Bay Wetlands Eco and Activity Park

IEIreland · Tralee

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 25 November at 12:00 — 24 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.
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What the buyer is looking for

Concession Contract for the Operation and Management of Café and Catering Services at The Lakeside Café, at Tralee Bay Wetlands Eco and Activity Park

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€3,496,920
Published26 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

55 · Hotel & restaurant services
CPV 55300000 · 55523000 · 55500000 · 55520000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • The median procedure drew 2 bids (22 procedures with a bid count); 36% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 15 bids.n = 22
  • 27% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (38 awards since 2023, spread over 28 companies). That is well below the sector norm (53%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 38 awards since 2023
  • The award came in at a median 100% of the estimated value (5 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually about right here. Sector: 100%.n = 5
  • 3% of awards went to companies from abroad (38 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 38

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

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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
TRIUR Construction Limited42024–2026
MWP_2019532025–2026
Dillon Waste Unlimited Company32023–2025
KWD Recycling22023–2025
Fehily Timoney and Company_6661622023–2025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Wednesday 25 November at 12:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 15 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 1,692 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 31 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 · Hotel & restaurant services, 5 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 3,153 recorded awards).

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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