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Ireland - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - Preliminary Market Consultation (PMC) for Simultaneous Interpretation Services for Ireland’s 2026 Presidency of the Council of the European Union to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Ireland is running a Preliminary Market Consultation to explore the market for simultaneous interpretation services. These services may be needed for official events, meetings and conferences held in Ireland during the six-month term of the Presidency of the Council of the EU starting 1 July 2026. The consultation aims to map suppliers and their capacity, identify risks and delivery obstacles, gather information on pricing models and indicative costs, and alert suppliers to a possible forthcoming procurement opportunity. Interested providers should submit responses via the form in the consultation document on eTenders.gov.ie. This is not a call for competition and no contract will be awarded.

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The key objectives of this PMC for the DFAT are: 1. To establish the nature, structure, and capacity of the market to provide simultaneous interpretation services which may be required for official-level events, meetings and conferences taking place in Ireland during the six-month term of the Presidency. . 2. To improve the DFAT’s knowledge of both the range of suppliers of simultaneous interpretation services in the market and to demonstrate their capacity to provide services for a programme of events at the scale, duration, complexity, and security profile of a typical Presidency of the Council of the EU. 3. To identify any obstacles or risk factors associated with the provision and delivery of simultaneous interpretation services for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU from 1 July 2026. 4. To gather pricing models information and establish indicative costing methodologies. 5. To make suppliers in the market aware of the possible forthcoming procurement opportunity. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade wishes to invite simultaneous interpretation service providers to make submissions, using the Response form in the Preliminary Market Consultation document provided. For full details please see the Preliminary Market Consultation document with the PMC Notice published on https://www.eTenders.gov.ie, the Irish Public Procurement portal, https://www.etenders.gov.ie, ID6055571 (https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/pmc/viewPmc.do?resourceId=6055571). Interested parties should note that this is not a call for competition, and there will be no award of business as a result of this market consultation process.

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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála

Ireland

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Ireland · Business services

different companies won awards here
658
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
5%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
385 of 453
buyers awarded contracts here
245

Based on 979 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)
11.5
of those lots received a single tender
12%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
21%

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.

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