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Ireland - Prepared meals - Principal Drumeela National school

Open Ireland Northern and Western Food & beverages

Buyer Drumeela NS

18 days left

Key facts

Closes
11:15 (UTC)
Estimated value
€62,544
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 18 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

17 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 6,052 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.

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Description

tender for hot school meals

Terms of the procedure

Tenders go to
etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=9196577

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 €62,544.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Food & beverages.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    18 days left, 13 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €129,648 and €379,571.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

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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Last verified against TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) 4 hours ago

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 631 awards for Food & beverages in Ireland.

This notice
€62,544
Median award
€225,792
Middle half of past awards
€129,648 to €379,571

The estimate is smaller than three in four past awards.

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

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Drumeela NS

Ireland

This is the only notice from this buyer in the register so far, so there is no record to show yet.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Food & beverages - Ireland

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
The Lunch Bag Limited 108 €35.1M Sep 2026
Carambola 49 €15.4M Jul 2026
Bradcon Catering Ltd 42 €10.6M Jul 2026
School Lunches Catering Ltd 34 €11.1M Jul 2026
Glanmore Foods Ltd. 32 €9.2M Jul 2026

Based on 598 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Market context

Larger than 24% of the open notices in Food & beverages across Europe.

open now in Food & beverages
2,581
median open notice
€300,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Ireland · Food & beverages

different companies won awards here
82
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
33%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
29 of 64
buyers awarded contracts here
585

Based on 605 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.

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