Education Procurement Service (EPS)
1,116 notices in the register, 14 open now. 824 contracts awarded, worth €105.3M in all.
Main sectors Laboratory & precision equipment 576, Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals 72, Business services 34, Software & IT systems 31, Education & training 31, Industrial machinery 31
Record
Awards by year
- 2026 63 awards €32.9M
- 2025 80 awards €30.1M
- 2024 18 awards €21.1M
- 2023 60 awards €371,940
- 2022 111 awards
- 2021 82 awards
- 2020 86 awards
- 2019 86 awards
- €1.0M
- €10.0M
- largest, €17.5M
- value not published
Each dot is one award, placed on its date and sized by its value. Where a year holds more than 80 awards, its 80 largest are drawn.
Relations
Who wins with this buyer
- Mason Technology Ltd 17 contracts €428,370
- Dublin Analytical Instruments Ltd. 14 contracts €330,551
- Particular Sciences Limited 14 contracts €315,025
- Bio-Sciences Ltd 11 contracts
- Medical Supply Company Ltd 7 contracts €170,084
- Anton Paar Ireland Ltd. 7 contracts €71,929
- Anton Paar Ltd 7 contracts
- Laboratory Instrument and Supplies Ltd 6 contracts €295,000
Shares of the 727 awards this buyer made to a named company.
Practice
How it buys
Publishing rhythm
Publishes most in September and October.
Next likely wave: September 2027.
- Typical contract value
- €480,000
- Median of the last 200 priced notices
Based on 422 notices over the last 24 months.
What to expect from this buyer
Measured in its busiest sector Laboratory & precision equipment
- Typical wait for the award decision, counted from publication
- 153 days
- awarded, as a share of the estimate (median)
- 99%
- half between 91% and 100%, from 55 awards
Medians across the 170 comparable awards this buyer made in this sector over the last 5 years. Each figure uses the awards that publish the dates or values it needs.
Next 90 days
Coming up from this buyer
- tenders announced in advance (last 6 months)
- 0
- contracts due back on the market in the next 90 days
- 2
Scorecard
The buyer in figures
How it runs its calls for tender
- usual bidding window
- 29 days
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 100%
Estimates over its calls for tender of the last 3 years, bidding windows over the last 2. Deadline extensions only where the source updates a notice in place (TED publishes corrections as separate notices, so its buyers show none).
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 177
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 5%
- winners of the last 12 months were new here
- 113 of 120
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 100%
Based on 191 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners. New: no award from the same buyer or market in the two years before.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 4.0
- of those lots received a single tender
- 23%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 43%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
Register
Tenders from this buyer
22
days left
€4,900,000
est. value
18
days to request
€600,000
est. value
2533
days to request
€280,000,000
est. value
2479
days to request
€18,000,000
est. value
Closed
€200,000
est. value