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Ireland - Recruitment services - Provision of Sourcing of Short-term and Temporary Locum General Practitioners (GPs) for the Health Sector in Ireland.

Open Ireland Eastern and Midland Business services

Buyer Health Service Executive (HSE)

35 days left

Key facts

Closes
14:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€615,000
Competition
Open race
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 36 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

35 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

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 6,033 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 30 days (median of its last 370 calls for tender).

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The Aperlena Verdict

Open race

No supplier dominates: 10 different companies have won the last 10 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.

Based on 10 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.

Summary

Machine-generated summary

The Health Service Executive in Ireland seeks qualified employment agencies to source short-term and temporary locum General Practitioners for the health sector. The service supports up to 250 GMS GPs in rural and remote areas who receive the Rural Practice allowance, providing reliable locum cover so they can take leave while patients continue to receive high-quality care. The scheme, developed under the 2023 GP Agreement, covers leave of one to two weeks, with a maximum block of five weeks. The process follows Annex XIV of Directive 2014/24/EU, with tenderers ranked and scored on award criteria; the four top-ranked candidates will be offered contracts. Estimated cost is €100k plus VAT per year, for an initial 36-month contract.

Description

The Health Service Executive seeks to appoint suitably qualified employment agencies to source short-term locum General Practitioners (GPs) for General Medical Services (GMS) GPs working in rural Ireland. The purpose of this tender is to support access to locum cover for up to 250 GMS General Practitioners (GPs) in rural and remote areas, who are in receipt of the Rural Practice allowance. GPs in rural and remote areas must be able to access reliable locum cover to allow them take leave knowing that their patients will continue to receive high-quality care in their absence. This scheme, developed under the terms of the 2023 GP Agreement, addresses a critical need for rural GPs who often face significant challenges in securing cover for periods of planned leave. It is envisaged that most leave requests will be for 1 to 2 week leave periods. The maximum leave duration that will be requested is a block of 5 weeks in total. Under this scheme, eligible GPs in receipt of rural practice support will have access to a streamlined locum sourcing service. The service is currently provided by one employment agency under a non-compliant pilot programme set up by the National Contracts Office. This tender process is being conducted as an open-style tender under Annex XIV of Procurement directives 2014/24/EU. The required services are listed as Annex XIV services, and accordingly, only Articles 74 to 77 of Directive 2014/24/EC applies to the award of any contract(s) that arise from this process. As such, there is considerable flexibility in conducting the tender process and this is required given the specialist nature of the services required and the very limited market. Tenderers will be ranked and scored according to the Award Criteria stated. The four top ranked tenderers will be offered a contract. The estimated cost is €100k + VAT per year. The contract is for an initial 36-month period. At the end of this period the HSE can assess if the services being delivered are satisfactory or if the requirements of the scheme changes. There are 2 x 12-month optional extensions. The current focus is ensuring that a contract is in place in early 2027

Terms of the procedure

Small firms
The buyer marks this procedure as suitable for small and medium-sized firms.
Tenders go to
etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=9255611

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 €615,000.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Business services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    35 days left, 26 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    This buyer usually awards this kind of contract for between €132,469 and €800,000.

    Contracts here close a median of 0% above their estimate.

  6. In your favour:

    Do we know this buyer?

    10 different companies won the last 10 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

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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 €615,000
€615,000 to €615,000

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 314 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 10 comparable contracts this buyer awarded in this sector over the last 4 years.

This notice
€615,000
Median award
€311,750
Middle half of past awards
€132,469 to €800,000

The estimate sits inside the usual range.

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.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Health Service Executive (HSE)

Ireland

notices in the register
1,715
awards
776
awarded in total
€2.0B

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
276
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
7%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
192 of 216
of its calls state an estimated value
63%

Based on 374 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)
6.3
of those lots received a single tender
14%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
12%

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
EpiSensor Ltd 1 €1.5M Sep 2025
Central Solutions Ltd t/a 20FIFTY Partners 1 €910,155 Oct 2024
Language Training and Translating Ltd.; Access International EMEA S.R.L.; Transferendum; TransLinguist OÜ; TRANSLIT; The Language Room; Bridge Interpreting Ltd; Irish Sign Language Interpreting; Word Perfect Translations Ltd; translation.ie 1 €800,000 Dec 2025
Deloitte Ireland LLP 1 €323,499 Jan 2026
PrintPost Ltd_23281 1 €300,000 Oct 2026

Based on 10 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

16 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 67% of the open notices in Business services across Europe.

open now in Business services
4,281
median open notice
€216,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Ireland · Business services

different companies won awards here
653
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
5%
winners of the last 12 months were new here
381 of 449
buyers awarded contracts here
245

Based on 980 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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