🇮🇪 Ireland · Education
Education tenders in Ireland.
Sell to State lists 2 Ireland portals and buyers that publish education tenders. The award numbers below come from TED award notices.
Search Ireland Education tenders →🇮🇪 TED award notices · Oct 2024 – Sep 2026
Who wins education contracts in Ireland?
CPV sector: the sector of each award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Other counts on the site use keyword labels and can differ.
810 education awards in Ireland went to 399 suppliers from October 2024 to September 2026. Of 399 winning suppliers, 72% won once. Their awards are 35% of the total. The top 1% of suppliers won 11% of the awards, close to the median for education across 10 countries: 10%.
The stated value is more concentrated than the awards here: 20% against 11% for the top 1%. No supplier won more than 4% of the awards. Codex Limited_15733 won the most: 34.
- Awards
- 810
- Contract awards from Oct 2024 – Sep 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 399
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 72%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 11%
- Share of awards won by the 3 suppliers with the most awards.
Fewer than 2,000 awards in this window. Read the numbers with care.
Top suppliers
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (EUR) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Codex Limited_15733 | 34 | 4% | 5.95 million | 2% |
| 2 | Opening Minds Educational | 29 | 4% | 3.11 million | 1% |
| 3 | Pearlshield Ltd T/A Coughlans Bookshop | 28 | 3% | 3.09 million | 1% |
| 4 | Codex Limited_15733 | 22 | 3% | 7.97 million | 3% |
| 5 | High Street Books | 21 | 3% | 1.93 million | under 1% |
| 6 | Business Services and Supplies_170194 | 19 | 2% | 1.85 million | under 1% |
| 7 | Jones Business Systems_10064 | 16 | 2% | 1.55 million | under 1% |
| 8 | Central Technology Supplies Ltd. | 13 | 2% | 1.50 million | under 1% |
| 9 | The Castle Book and Card Centre Limited | 11 | 1% | 766,005 | under 1% |
| 10 | Cormicans School and Art Supplies | 10 | 1% | 739,941 | under 1% |
Top buyers
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (EUR) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Education Procurement Service (EPS) | 33 | 4% | 19.5 million | 7% |
| 2 | University of Limerick_1124 | 22 | 3% | 11.8 million | 4% |
| 3 | Atlantic Technological University | 21 | 3% | 1.85 million | under 1% |
| 4 | County Wexford Chamber Skillnet | 17 | 2% | 59,510 | under 1% |
| 5 | Louth and Meath Education and Training Board 1384 | 16 | 2% | 23.4 million | 8% |
| 6 | European Commission, DG HR - Human Resources and Security | 14 | 2% | 41.3 million | 14% |
| 7 | Rural Food Skillnet | 13 | 2% | 228,850 | under 1% |
| 8 | Waterford Chamber Skillnet_507 | 12 | 1% | 267,500 | under 1% |
| 9 | Kildare County Council_385 | 12 | 1% | – | – |
| 10 | Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (Offaly) | 11 | 1% | 3.11 million | 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
How we counted
- TED award notices for Ireland. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- October 2024 to September 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for Ireland, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- Each award has the CPV code of its notice. Education here means education and training services (CPV 80), staff training, educational equipment, school books and textbooks, and defense training (CPV 806). It leaves out school buildings (Construction), school furniture, school-meal services (Facilities Management), school transport (Transport & Logistics) and educational software (IT & Software). Each award counts in one sector only. We do not use our keyword sector labels here. A hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors. How we counted in 39 countries.
- We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
- We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
- Stated value is the amount in the award notice, in EUR. It is often the ceiling of a framework agreement, and the money paid can be lower. When several winners share one notice and one amount, we split the amount. We cap each award at the 99.9th percentile of the awards in Ireland. 66% of the awards state an amount, EUR 286 million in total.
- The awards for Ireland come from TED, which publishes contracts above the EU thresholds. This block describes the larger education contracts.
- These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.
Snapshot 9 October 2026. Awards from October 2024 to September 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.
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The app shows the same counts for the other sectors in Ireland and for each live country.
Read the Ireland data story →Sell to State holds TED award notices for Ireland. Describe the education work you sell in plain English and get tender IDs, buyers, values and dates.
Ireland portals with education tenders
This is a directory of portals. The numbers above come from TED award notices only.
Other Ireland tender sectors
Explore Ireland government contracts in related sectors:
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Questions
- Who won the most education contracts in Ireland?
- Codex Limited_15733 won the most education awards in Ireland from October 2024 to September 2026: 34 of 810 (4%). Opening Minds Educational won 29 and Pearlshield Ltd T/A Coughlans Bookshop won 28. The top 10 is on this page.
- How many education suppliers in Ireland win only one contract?
- 72% of the 399 suppliers with an education award in the window won exactly one. Together they hold 35% of the awards. We count suppliers by normalised name, so this share is an upper bound.
- How concentrated are education contracts in Ireland?
- The top 1% of suppliers (3) won 11% of the awards, and the top 10% won 44%. The Gini coefficient of awards across suppliers is 0.45: 0 means that each supplier wins the same number, and 1 means that one supplier wins all. By stated value, the top 1% hold 20%.
- Which buyers sign the most education contracts in Ireland?
- Education Procurement Service (EPS) signed the most: 33 awards (4%). The ten largest buyers signed 21% of the 810 awards from October 2024 to September 2026.
- Where are education tenders published in Ireland?
- Sell to State lists 2 portals that publish education tenders in Ireland, for example ETB Education and Training Boards Procurement, OGP (Office of Government Procurement) Ireland Digital. We hold TED award notices for Ireland.
- Can foreign vendors bid on Ireland education contracts?
- Eligibility depends on each tender's rules and the procurement law of Ireland. Many education contracts are open to international bidders, sometimes through a local partner or a registration. Always check the notice itself; Sell to State links the source listing so you can verify it.
- How does Sell to State help with Ireland education procurement?
- Sell to State collects TED award notices for Ireland on a regular schedule. Every record shows its publication date.
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