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Ireland - Energy-efficiency consultancy services - Provision of Consultancy Services for a District Heating Feasibility Study for Cork City

Open Ireland Southern Architecture & engineering services

Buyer Cork City Council

8 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC+1)
Estimated value
€250,000
Competition
Open race
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 8 days
  4. Award, estimated early April 2027

Award expected around early April 2027. Based on 7 past awards by this buyer in this sector, a median of 176 days from publication to decision.

Bidding window

7 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

Notices of this kind (Ireland, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 29 days, half of them between 21 and 34 days, based on 6,016 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

This buyer usually gives 28 days (median of its last 69 calls for tender).

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The Aperlena Verdict

Open race

No supplier dominates: 26 different companies have won the last 39 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.

Expected wait for the award decision
176 days
from 7 past awards

Based on 39 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.

Description

Cork City Council wishes to explore the potential for use of district heating in Cork City to cater for heat energy demand whilst contributing to decarbonisation of Ireland's energy sector.

Terms of the procedure

As the official notice states them.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

    Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €250,000.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Architecture & engineering services.

  4. Check this first:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    8 days left, 6 of them working days.

  5. Check this first:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    This buyer usually awards this kind of contract for between €13,003 and €220,802.

    Contracts here close a median of 36% below their estimate.

  6. In your favour:

    Do we know this buyer?

    26 different companies won the last 39 comparable contracts.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
  • Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis

Official source

Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)

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Expected award price

likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €250,000
€250,000 to €250,000

Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 100% of their published estimate, half of them between 100% and 100%, based on 384 awards of the last 3 years.

Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.

What this buyer has paid before

Based on 35 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.

This notice
€250,000
Median award
€48,670
Middle half of past awards
€13,003 to €220,802

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Most recent awards

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Cork City Council

Ireland

notices in the register
825
awards
499
awarded in total
€109.1M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
135
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
11%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
84 of 101
of its calls state an estimated value
88%

Based on 189 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)
4.1
of those lots received a single tender
21%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
8%

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.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
AtkinsRéalis 6 €304,368 Mar 2026
Fehily Timoney and Company 4 €523,860 Apr 2026
DBFL Consulting Engineers 3 €275,604 Mar 2026
O'Connor Sutton Cronin 2 €781,246 Mar 2026
Deasy Walley Partnership 2 €34,060 Mar 2026

Based on 39 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

6 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 45% of the open notices in Architecture & engineering services across Europe.

open now in Architecture & engineering services
7,840
median open notice
€294,533

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Ireland · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
726
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
4%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
390 of 490
buyers awarded contracts here
177

Based on 1,190 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)
31.7
of those lots received a single tender
15%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
13%

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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