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Invitation to Tender for Panel of Training Providers and Facilitators

IEIreland · Dublin

Your path to submission

Deadline: 23 November at 17:00 — 22 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, through its One Step Closer community-based training service operates a training model that is person and family-centred. The programme is designed to help people from disadvantaged communities, International Protection Applicants, Travellers and Roma access a range of pre-employment, education and training supports locally to support independent living. Trainers will be responsible for delivering these training and education programmes to individuals or groups, in a blended capacity, online and/or face-to-face. We are seeking submissions for training to meet the organisations needs for staff and clients.

Contract

BuyerEmpower CLG →

TypeServices

Estimated value€472,047

Published27 Oct 2026

ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

80 · Education & training

CPV 80000000

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 7 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 2,174 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 28 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.

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Foreign bidders

In Ireland · Education & training, 82 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 2,429 recorded awards) — mostly from United Kingdom, France, Germany.

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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