Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 79 (Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security) in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by council, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 359 awards worth €618,876,768 combined.
Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
Top councils by value
| Council | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin City Council | €100,220,000 | 2 |
| Limerick City And County Council | €4,962,997 | 4 |
| Fingal County Council | €1,295,813 | 6 |
| Cork City Council | €928,428 | 14 |
| Donegal County Council | €927,740 | 3 |
| Waterford City And County Council | €900,000 | 1 |
| Wicklow County Council | €640,000 | 1 |
| Kildare County Council | €600,000 | 1 |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council | €430,000 | 3 |
| Laois County Council | €263,114 | 3 |
Based on the 13% of Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Framework | €371,358,366 | 95 |
| Bespoke | €206,008,376 | 197 |
| FW - Mini-Comp | €26,433,895 | 33 |
| DPS Tender | €14,744,786 | 18 |
| Simplified | €331,346 | 16 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| OJEU | €529,961,090 | 165 |
| National | €47,405,651 | 127 |
| Direct Invite | €26,765,241 | 49 |
| Not recorded | €14,744,786 | 18 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Services | €592,111,528 | 310 |
| Not recorded | €26,765,241 | 49 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 40 of 288 contracts with a recorded bid count (14%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here.
Figures published by Office of Government Procurement (eTenders contract award notices). Accessed 2026-10-19.