FAQs

Any registered account — a Sustainable Energy Community, a club, a community centre, a local development company, or a business tendering for its own works. Posting needs only an account; it is bidding that needs a business profile.

Nothing at present. Posting tenders, bidding, and contractor notification registration are all free. If fees are introduced for some features in future they will be stated clearly before you incur them.

Most grant schemes — SEAI community grants, LEADER, sports capital — expect comparable quotes and a record of how they were got. The comparison export exists for exactly that: every bid side by side, VAT normalised, with the process history behind it.

No, and this is deliberate and disclosed. The tenderer sees bids as they arrive, which lets a committee review as it goes. Every bidder is told this on the tender page and in their bid confirmation. What never happens: one bidder seeing another’s bid.

The tenderer and any committee collaborators they have named. Other bidders never see your bid, your price or your documents.

Yes — edit or withdraw any time up to the tender deadline. Edits keep their history, and the deadline is enforced by the server, not your browser clock.

A bidder can ask a question up to the query deadline (normally three days before the tender deadline). The tenderer’s answer is published to every bidder on the tender, so all are pricing the same information. The asker’s identity is shown to the tenderer only, never to other bidders.

A tender that never appears on the public listing. The tenderer shares an invite link directly — by email, WhatsApp, however they choose — and can revoke and regenerate the link at any time. Anyone with the link can read the tender; bidding still needs an account and business profile.

You get an email, and your bid is flagged in the tenderer’s comparison as made before the change. If the change matters to your price, edit your bid before the deadline.

No. The platform hosts the process and makes no representation about any bidder. Each tenderer sets its own requirements on the tender — insurance, tax clearance, Safe Electric or NSAI registration, references — and checking them before award is the tenderer’s responsibility.

The platform’s involvement ends. The winner is notified (and, optionally, the unsuccessful bidders), and contracting, scheduling and the works continue directly between the parties by email. The tender record stays available for your files.

No. eTenders (etenders.gov.ie) is the Government procurement platform for above-threshold public contracts. e-tender.ie is an independent platform for below-threshold community and organisational tendering, with no affiliation to eTenders or any State body. If you are a public body above the thresholds, use eTenders.

Completed tenders and bids are kept for 7 years, matching normal business record-keeping and grant-audit horizons. The privacy notice covers the rest, including your rights.

The 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland. Contractors register the counties they cover and are notified of matching tenders in them.