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Cleaning Tenders in Dublin.

The State of Cleaning Procurement in Dublin

Updated 24 September 2026

Irish procurement rules for cleaning tenders

Public procurement in Ireland follows EU Directive 2014/24/EU, which Ireland transposed through the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016. Irish public bodies advertise opportunities on eTenders, the national procurement portal. Contracts above the EU thresholds are also published in the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED).

For Ireland, the Lucius catalog indexes open notices from both eTenders and TED. The software maintains a live index of 230,000+ public tenders from 15 official sources in 170+ countries. The Lucius catalog has no separate feed for Dublin; its Dublin notices come from the national feeds.

Cleaning notices across Ireland

On 24 September 2026, across the whole of Ireland, not only Dublin, the catalog held 8 open notices whose text mentions cleaning, drawn from eTenders and TED. Across all sectors, 603 notices were open in the same scope on that date.

Bid and tender writers can track these notices through the software or upload any tender pack directly. Once a cleaning pack is added, the software processes the buyer's documentation to assist with the evaluation, compliance tracking and response planning required by the team.

Example cleaning tenders from Irish buyers

The catalog recorded open cleaning notices from buyers in Ireland (not specific to Dublin), matched by the catalog's Cleaning sector tag or cleaning, janitorial or hygiene in the title. On that date, these open tenders included:

• Provision of Provision of Commercial Cleaning Services at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, published by St. Vincent's University Hospital on TED, closing in September 2026.
• IBTS Cleaning tender (2 lots) GMP and Non GMP, published by Irish Blood Transfusion Service on TED, closing in October 2026.
• FCL033F Single Supplier Framework Agreement for the supply of Cleaning, Paper, Personal Hygiene and Period…, published by The Office of Government Procurement on TED, closing in October 2026.
• Tender for 1 no. Multifunction Compact Street Sweeper, published by Kilkenny County Council_1185 on eTenders, closing in October 2026.
• Provision of Facilities Management Services for An Coimisiún Pleanála, published by An Coimisiún Pleanála on TED, closing in October 2026.

Public buyers active in the cleaning sector

Across all open notices in this set, 7 different buyers were publishing. The most active were St. Vincent's University Hospital with 2 notices, and The Office of Government Procurement with 2 notices.

Other public authorities in this set included An Coimisiún Pleanála with 1 notice, Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine with 1 notice, and Irish Blood Transfusion Service with 1 notice. Bid teams targeting Dublin cleaning work encounter notices originating from hospital groups, central procurement bodies and national administrative agencies.

Managing cleaning tender requirements and risk

Tender writers work through the buyer's questions, instructions, word limits and required attachments. Lucius AI reads a public-sector tender pack and extracts every requirement into a register, with a citation to the page each requirement comes from. The software then builds a compliance matrix from that requirement register.

Bid and tender writers must also plan each answer against the evaluation criteria stated in the pack. To aid the initial assessment, Lucius AI scans the contract terms for commercial risk, such as liquidated damages, liability caps and indemnities, and gives a bid/no-bid verdict on the tender. This lets teams evaluate whether a public cleaning contract aligns with their operating criteria before writing begins.

Drafting quality responses and exporting

Writing method statements and quality answers often involves adapting material from earlier bids. Lucius AI drafts responses from the company's own past bids, kept in its Bid Library. Writers use these draft sections to establish an initial response structure aligned to the buyer's evaluation model.

Before submission, tender writers check that every requirement in the pack has an answer. The software assists this check against the compiled requirement register. Once response documents are drafted and verified, Lucius AI exports its work to Word, Excel and PDF formats for final submission formatting.

Bidders into Dublin cleaning contracts compete under eTenders.gov.ie and Office of Government Procurement frameworks. Sector-specific compliance bars include workforce qualifications and vetting, hazardous-substance controls, living-wage commitments and health-and-safety accreditation. When a tender asks for any of them, Lucius lists that requirement with its page and a quote from the source.