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Invitation to Tender for Managed Multi-Function Print Services

IEIreland · Dublin

Your path to submission

Deadline: 23 November at 17:00 — 23 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.

Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

Empower invites tenders from suitably qualified providers for the management, maintenance and support of its existing multi-function print estate, associated consumables, PaperCut administration and a planned migration from the current PaperCut MF architecture to PaperCut Hive or an approved equivalent cloud-native target solution.

Contract

BuyerEmpower CLG →

TypeServices

Estimated value€190,000

Published26 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Place of performanceDublin

Reserved for SMEs

Type of service

50 · Repair & maintenance

CPV 50000000

Clement

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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

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitewww.empower.ie

Deadline — Monday 23 November at 17:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 4 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 1,075 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 29 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 876 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

The rules of the market →

Foreign bidders

In Ireland · Repair & maintenance, 38 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,219 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, Germany, 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.

To the procurement portal →Official notice on TED →

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