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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 6 different companies have won the last 6 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
- Expected wait for the award decision
- 44 days
- from 3 past awards
Based on 6 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 summaryThe Embassy of Ireland in Bogotá, Colombia, is seeking a suitably qualified and licensed security services provider. The contract covers security services at two embassy locations, the Chancery and the Official Residence. Services include 24/7 physical security and an alarm monitoring and response service. The notice is published on the Irish Government's eTenders web-portal in accordance with EU Directive 2014/24/EU as a Title III Service. All communication relating to this tender competition must be made directly with the Embassy of Ireland in Bogotá by email to bogotatenders@dfa.ie. Interested tenderers should contact the embassy directly to participate in the competition and obtain any further information about the requirements.
Description
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.
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) 6 hours ago
What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 946 awards for Business services in Ireland.
- Median award
- €150,000
- Middle half of past awards
- €59,717 to €400,000
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.
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 profileDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála
- notices in the register
- 250
- awards
- 167
- awarded in total
- €24.9M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 37
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 11%
- winners of the last 12 months were new here
- 21 of 21
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 83%
Based on 38 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)
- 5.1
- of those lots received a single tender
- 5%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 29%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SECURITAS NV | 1 | €2.2M | May 2025 |
| Creative Technology (Audio Visual) Ireland Ltd; Instant News Services | 1 | €311,160 | May 2026 |
| Indecon International Economic and Strategic Consultants; Fitzpatrick Associates_30711; AECOM Ireland Ltd_31745; Forvis Mazars_11843 | 1 | Jan 2025 | |
| Institute for Development Strategy GmbH | 1 | Mar 2022 | |
| IOD PARC (trading name of International Organisation Development Ltd.) | 1 | Mar 2022 |
Based on 6 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
3 open tenders right now
Market context
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.
- open now in Business services
- 4,390
- median open notice
- €204,819
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersIreland · 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.
Similar tenders
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Matched by meaning across languages, from the notices' own words: the same kind of contract, open now in another country.
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