At Tsaks Consulting, we helped our first client in Dublin in 2013. For over twelve years, we have been helping businesses in Dublin and across Ireland win new private and government contracts through tenders and bids. A large and dynamic economy, Ireland offers opportunities for business to secure both government and private contracts.

Our team of bid, tender and proposal writers understand the Irish market and economy and know what it takes to help you secure government and private contracts. We will work with you to ensure your bid or tender aligns with industry best practice and are ready to help with all aspects of your bid.

We’ve helped many companies write winning bids and tenders in Dublin, including in the recruitment, defence, medical and construction tenders. Both private and public sector procurement in Dublin, and Ireland more broadly have their own nuances and unique demands and requirements. Furthermore, within the public sector, different government departments and public sector entities procure differently and often adopt different requirements and procedures.

Our experience helping businesses across Ireland write winning bids and tenders is broad. We’ve helped small businesses located across Dublin suburbs such as Ringsend and Ballsbridge, medium sized corporations located in the Sandyford Business District, and large multi-national organisations based in Ireland and bidding for local and international contracts.

Helping businesses from different sectors win bids and contracts in Dublin

Our team of bid writers here at Tsaks Consulting bring a wealth of experience writing bids and tenders across different tenders both in Ireland (and Europe) as well as the UK. Examples of industries our clients come from include:

Construction and infrastructure.

With development not only in Dublin, but across Ireland, there is a strong demand for help with tenders and bids for construction and infrastructure projects. This starts from small maintenance works and building works by local tradespeople tendering for small projects, to help national and multinational construction companies bid for national construction and infrastructure projects. In our experience, a focus on safety and methodology is critical if you want to be successful in winning building contracts in Dublin and across Ireland. Our team of bid and tender writers in Dublin have experience helping construction, infrastructure and trade businesses write bids to the local authorities (Councils) as well as larger state bodies in Ireland such as Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). They all have their own preferences and requirements as part of their procurement processes and it’s important to meet the needs and mandatory requirements of each individual agency or department. If you want to be successful in a construction bid, you need to ensure you align your bid and comply with the Social and Green Public Procurement criteria. From the government’s perspective, this helps ensure the economic benefits of any construction, maintenance or trades works, flow through to the local area.

Technology and ICT

From software development to IT services and digital transformation, there is always something happening in Ireland either through the government or private sector initiatives. We leverage on our experience writing technology and ICT bids across Europe and the UK to help local clients win. Clear, concise language and infographics to communicate complex solutions are critical to winning technology and ICT contracts in Dublin and across Ireland. Our team of bid writers have helped businesses and organisations in Ireland, and also internationally write winning ICT and digital transformation contracts to the Irish government. This includes helping business write bid to the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) for a number of different national frameworks. Some of the bids we have assisted with include:

• • Cloud Migration and Managed Services
  • The provision of Cybersecurity services
  • AI consultancy and bid data for government services
  • Digital services mainly associated with the digitisation of public service delivery.

Healthcare

This is a large industry in Ireland and with many contract opportunities in both the public and private sector. Our bid writers at Tsaks Consulting UK, including our founder Jason Cooney, have a track record of helping businesses in Dublin and across Ireland bid for and win healthcare contracts. We have an understanding of the terminology and general language you need to adopt to be successful and have helped clients win contracts for a broad range of healthcare services such as the provision of medical supplies, equipment and healthcare services. A key win theme that needs to be featured in nearly every healthcare bid is a focus on patient care and patient outcomes. This theme needs to be integrated throughout your bid in order to be effective. The Health Service Executive (HSE) is headquartered in Dublin and undertakes significant spending on behalf of the government. It’s important to understand their procurement processes (as our team of writers does) and also navigate and select the framework agreements that suit your business or product. This ranges from clinical services to non-clinical services (such as laboratory equipment supply). Either way, in order to be successful with a bid for a contract to HSE, you need to show you have a comprehensive understanding of clinical governance and are able to supply the products or services in a reliable manner and over the long term with a robust supply chain model.

Financial services and financial technology contracts

Over the past 30 years, Dublin has developed into a major finance hub including for Europe, regulatory bodies and start-ups and other finance businesses. Our bid and tender writers have helped clients respond to RFPs and RFTs for a range of financial services contracts covering consulting, regulatory compliance and advisory services. In order to win finance and fintech contracts in Ireland, you need to:

• • Demonstrate you have a comprehensive and applied understanding of the regulatory environment and clearly explain how you will comply with any relevant regulations (or help enforce).
  • Ensure that your solution is innovative (if applicable) and detail any quality assurance and control principles and processes you have in place.
  • Provide a tailored proposal and ensure your team Bio’s and Cvs are tailored to the opportunity and the type of work or service to be provided.

Professional services

Our team has helped lawyers, accountants, engineers and other professional services consultancies secure government and private sector contracts in Ireland.

Education

Another industry our bid writers have strong experience in, extending from facilities management through to training programs and educational resources.

The types of tenders in Ireland (and Dublin) and where to find them

Our team helps businesses in Dublin and Ireland bid for contracts through the full range of procurement processes including the:

• Open procedure – a single stage process where a tender response is completed.
• Restricted procedure – a two-stage process which includes pre-qualification and tender submission.
• Negotiated procedure – This is much less common and involves direct communication.
• Competitive Dialogue – For highly complex contracts, discussions are needed across the course of the procurement process.
• Framework agreement.
• Dynamic Purchasing Systems.

We always recommend our clients use the national eTenders portal (www.etenders.gov.ie), to identify contract opportunities across Ireland and in Dublin. In addition, through business development and marketing initiatives, there are often private contract opportunities that are worth bidding for.

Tsaks Consulting tailored bid writing services in Dublin

We help businesses in Dublin and across Ireland through all stages of the tender and bid writing process including:

• Identifying contract opportunities for our clients
• Developing a strategy and win themes for your next tender or bid
• Writing the bid and response to the questions
• Reviewing and editing your draft bids
• Managing the tender writing process from start to finish.

We have helped clients write bids and tender to most of the major public sector government departments including:

• Office of Government Procurement (OGP)
• Health Service Executive (HSE)
• Department of Education
• Local Authorities: For example, Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, South Dublin County Council, and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council issue tenders relevant to the Dublin area.
• Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII):
• Department of Justice
• Department of Defence
• Department of Environment, Climate and Communications
• Department of Social Protection also issue tenders related to their specific functions.
• State Agencies: Numerous state agencies like IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board.

Our track record of success helping clients win contracts across Ireland

We are privileged to be considered one of Dublin’s leading bid writing consultants and a leading bid and tender writing consultant across Ireland, and the UK and EU more broadly. This reputation has been built on many years of creating winning strategies businesses in Dublin and across Ireland that help secure public and private sector tenders. Examples of recent case studies are provided below:

Case Study 1: Dublin City Council Waste Management

Nature of the contract: We assisted a local SME to write a winning bid to Dublin City Council. This was an open RFT for the collection of kerbside waste. It was a highly competitive bid with a number of national competitors all competing for the contract. Some of them had a more advanced equipment and trucks, whilst our client had the strategic advantage of being more dynamic and able to better focus on the opportunity.

Our strategy for success: We worked with the client to develop a winning tender and bidding strategy that would have them score well and communicate clear messages about their business and win themes. This involved talking about their operational efficiency and the benefits they bring from being a local operator with hands-on knowledge. We also talked real, practical ways we would achieve DCC’s sustainability targets and goals and come up with targeted and tailored strategies from this. Another key point was fleet reliability. Our client had an in-house mechanic as well access and inventory for replacement parts.

A winning bid for the Dublin contract: We worked closely with the client to develop a bid that was ultimately successful. We did this by incorporating graphics and infographics throughout the bid as well as providing evidence for all the key points we put forward. We worked with the client to find third party references and testimonials which we could include in the bid as well as come up with a methodology that was detailed included a practical approach to ensuring fleet uptime. We also come up with a sustainability strategy that directly reflected the aims and strategy provided by DCC. Our client was successful, and the bid was both compelling and persuasive.

Case Study 2: Helping an IT client secure an IT services framework for the HSE

Nature of the contract: This was a tender / bid for a framework agreement for the provision of Cloud Migration and Support Services. Our client was overseas based, with some presence in Dublin although their presence and experience was relatively new on a local level. They had strong international experience particularly in the UK and other European governments – where they also provided us references and conducted very similar work.

Our strategy for success: There were some significant challenges we needed to overcome in order to develop a winning bid strategy for this contract. Firstly, we had to focus on their international experience to overcome their lack of local experience. We also incorporated two key sub-contractors based in Dublin. Both of them had local experience and we used this experience to help strengthen the bid. We also has to convince the reader and procurement teams that we understood and would comply with the relevant Irish data protection laws as well as the relevant EU laws. We overcame this by referencing our EU experience and naming and incorporating a consultant as part of the bid to ensure compliance with Irish Data protection laws. Finally, their limited experience meant they had limited knowledge of the Health Service Executive’s IT infrastructure. This put local firms at an advantage from a bidding and tendering perspective. We overcame this by focusing on knowledge transfer from our local sub-contractors as well as the similarities in terminology and structure with other health departments.

A winning bid for our client in Dublin: The bid was successful. The strength of our local sub-contractors, coupled with our clients international experience and the benefits it would bring to the contract were both critical to success.

Three strategies to writing winning local Government bids and tenders in Dublin

Our capabilities extend to all levels of government and the private sector. One area we have extensive experience assisting clients to write winning bids and tenders for is the Council sector. For example, our team of bid and tender writers in Dublin have experience helping small, medium and large businesses bid for contracts with Dublin City Council, Fingal Country Council, South Dublin County Council and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

We have strong knowledge of the procurement processes, upcoming commercial and development projects and contract structures adopted by each Council – all of which are different. With all the councils, it’s important to incorporate and demonstrate your understanding of any local issues as well as integrate these into your bid. Four strategies our team here at Tsaks Consulting use to help our clients win more contracts with local Councils in Dublin (and that you can adopt too) include:

1. Localise your bid. You need to localise your bid and tailor it to the local Council are you are bidding for. This needs to extend across the entire bid, from your experience, to the methodology, safety and personnel. It’s important to focus on the triple bottom line and talk about what benefit you will provide the local community from an economic, social and environmental. If you will employ people, contractors, or engage businesses in Dublin as part of the contract, write about this and quantify it. Back it up with evidence. Also, where there are trends in Dublin or the specific local council area, local Council development programs, or strategic initiatives and plans, talk about these and outline how your proposal will assist with these.
2. Write a detailed methodology to help in your bid. The methodology for any tender or RFP / RFT response is becoming increasingly important, and this applies to local Council bids in Dublin, as well as across Ireland. When writing the methodology, you need to:
   1. Go into detail in all aspects.
   2. Incorporate safety, environment, reporting and admin.
   3. Cover off any details and KPIs in the specification documents.
   4. Demonstrate that you have ‘thought through’ the contract and incorporate actions or strategies address potential challenges.
3. Demonstrate that you can work with Council and local government. You need to provide a robust contract management framework. Put forward a plan for who will manage the contract, which of your team members will be in charge of reporting and also the administration side of the contract. This may not be directly related to delivering the work, but it is important for Councils in Dublin and across Ireland, as it provides assurance you will provide a quality service over the long term and be easy to work with.

Call us, enquire or email your tender documents today. We love to talk bids and tenders and our Director, Jason Cooney, will talk to you about your business and how we can help. Pick our brains, send the documents through and our team will review and provide you with a quote (we still deliver good old fashioned cost certainty).

We’ve helped organisations large and small in Dublin submit tenders to government and large corporations. Let us help you today and into 2026.

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