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A 48-month single-party framework worth €216,000 covers the supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of specialised beauty equipment for an Irish education authority.

Opening hook

Louth and Meath Education and Training Board is seeking a supplier for specialised beauty equipment through an open procurement process in Ireland. The opportunity is structured as a single-party framework agreement covering supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning over a 48-month period.

The estimated value is €216,000, with one lot and a submission deadline of 3 July 2026. For suppliers active in educational equipment, beauty training equipment, personal care products, or specialist classroom installation, the shape of the contract matters as much as the value: this is a single-supplier route, not a fragmented purchasing exercise.

The buyer profile also gives the opportunity a wider procurement context. Louth and Meath Education and Training Board has 169 recorded contract awards worth €149 million, while recorded comparable awards in similar categories reach 33 contracts worth €68 million.

Opportunity overview

Contracting authority: Louth and Meath Education and Training Board 1384.
Tender title: Supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of specialised beauty equipment.
Contract type: Supplies.
Procurement procedure: Open.
Reference and publication: 2026/S 110-00395352, published on 10 June 2026.
Submission deadline: 3 July 2026.
Tender opening date: 3 July 2026.
Submission window: 23 calendar days between publication and deadline.
Estimated total value: €216,000.
Lot structure: One lot, also valued at €216,000.
Contract duration: 48 months.
Place of performance: Ireland.
Language allowed for offer: English.
EU funding: No.
Evaluation criteria: Not specified in the available tender data.
Contact: procurement@lmetb.ie, 046 9068200.
Submission portal: eTenders Ireland, resource ID 8364362.

Scope of work:

• Supply of specialised beauty equipment.
• Delivery of the equipment.
• Installation of the equipment.
• Commissioning of the equipment.
• Framework arrangement with a single party supplier.

The procurement sits under medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, alongside other community, social and personal services. The topic categories include medical equipment and personal care products, beauty products, hairdressing and beauty treatment services, and beauty treatment services.

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Authority profile

Louth and Meath Education and Training Board is listed as a body governed by public law, with education as its main activity. The procurement is therefore tied to a public education buyer rather than a general municipal purchasing body or a central government department.

The current opportunity is not presented as a one-off purchase order. It is structured as a single-party framework agreement, which means the winning supplier would occupy the full supply route for the specified specialised beauty equipment requirement during the 48-month period.

The buyer profile contains a substantial purchasing history beyond this notice. Across all categories, Louth and Meath Education and Training Board has 11 open tenders worth €7.5 million, 129 renewals worth €146 million, and 169 contract awards worth €149 million. Comparable open tenders are not recorded for this specific category, but comparable renewals show 11 opportunities worth €9.6 million.

Recorded comparable award activity is also material. Similar contract awards total 33 contracts worth €68 million. The wider market context is broader again: other buyers with similar projects account for 1,200 opportunities worth €8.0 billion. The buyer has one recorded prior notice worth €1,700 across all categories, with no similar prior notices recorded.

Those figures do not change the requirements of this tender. They do, however, show that the opportunity sits inside a procurement environment where education-related equipment and service categories recur across public buyers.

Competitive landscape

Available comparable award data identifies the top suppliers by recorded activity. Hermix users can access the full comparable contractor list inside the platform with a free account.

The recorded comparable supplier activity is highly concentrated by value. The ten named suppliers account for approximately €66.5 million in recorded comparable awards. SG Education is the largest supplier by value and contract count, with €30 million across six contracts and an average contract value of €5 million.

Central Technology Supplies follows with €15 million across three contracts, also averaging €5 million. Specialist Crafts 112830 records €10 million across two contracts, again with an average value of €5 million. Together, these three suppliers account for approximately €55 million of the €66.5 million recorded across the ten named suppliers, or about 83 percent of that top supplier total.

Several suppliers appear with lower total values but clearer category relevance to beauty, laboratory, or specialist education supply. Gainfort Hair and Beauty Supplies records €405,000 across four contracts, averaging €101,000. Scientific Laboratory Supplies Ireland records €350,000 across four contracts, averaging €88,000. Laboratory Supplies T A Lennox records €200,000 across two contracts, averaging €100,000. Passion Beauty Supplies records €90,000 across two contracts, averaging €45,000.

Three suppliers appear with one recorded contract each. Fleming Medical 31617 records €5 million, Clenli Direct records €5 million, and DMC Design TA Cubbie records €450,000. The contractor-country profile is entirely domestic in the available comparable data: Ireland accounts for €68 million across 33 contracts, with an average value of €2.1 million.

This pattern creates two different signals for bidders. Large education or institutional suppliers dominate the value profile, while specialist suppliers appear in smaller contract bands. For a €216,000 beauty equipment framework, both dynamics matter: the buyer is procuring a specific equipment category, but the comparable market includes suppliers that have handled larger education and institutional supply contracts.

Commercial and procedural signals

The open procedure gives suppliers a direct route into the competition. The deadline falls on 3 July 2026, 23 calendar days after publication on 10 June 2026. That is a relatively compact window for suppliers that need to confirm equipment availability, delivery capacity, installation planning, and commissioning responsibilities before submitting an offer.

The tender is organised as one lot. Bidders cannot select only delivery, only installation, or only commissioning. The structure points toward suppliers that can cover the full requirement from equipment supply through to operational handover.

The framework is single-party. That is commercially important because the winning supplier would not be one of several framework participants. It would hold the full framework position for the specialised beauty equipment requirement, subject to the terms of the procurement.

The contract duration is 48 months. This is longer than a simple transactional equipment purchase, and it gives the framework a recurring procurement character across the period. The available tender data does not specify the evaluation criteria, so bidders should use the detailed procurement materials to drive bid strategy rather than assuming that price alone determines the outcome.

The allowed offer language is English, and the place of performance is Ireland. The tender is not financed with EU funds. No financial guarantee is specified in the available tender data.

Strategic context

This procurement is relatively focused in scope but not trivial in structure. A €216,000 estimated value over 48 months may appear straightforward at first glance, but the single-party framework changes the commercial reading. The buyer is not simply buying individual items. It is selecting one supplier to provide, install, and commission specialised beauty equipment under a framework arrangement.

The competitive context also argues against treating this as a narrow product-supply opportunity only. Comparable awards show large education and institutional suppliers beside smaller specialist suppliers. SG Education, Central Technology Supplies, and Specialist Crafts 112830 dominate by recorded value, while Gainfort Hair and Beauty Supplies and Passion Beauty Supplies show category-specific beauty supply activity at smaller values.

For bidders, the key qualification question is whether they can cover the complete chain of responsibility. Equipment supply must be matched with delivery, installation, and commissioning. The available tender data does not provide a detailed item list, weighting model, or specific technical scoring method, so suppliers should be cautious about over-reading the public summary and should build their response around the full procurement materials.

Hermix users analysing this tender can compare the buyer profile, recorded comparable contractors, renewal signals, and related opportunity categories in one workflow. That matters most when the published requirement is concise but the surrounding procurement history is commercially useful.

Practical takeaways for bidders

This tender suits:

• Suppliers of specialised beauty equipment with delivery, installation, and commissioning capacity in Ireland.
• Education-sector suppliers that can support practical training environments and equipment handover.
• Beauty, hairdressing, personal care, or specialist classroom equipment suppliers that can operate as the sole framework supplier.
• Companies comfortable with a 48-month framework structure rather than a single transactional sale.

Critical attention points:

• The contract is structured as one lot worth €216,000, so partial-scope bidding is not supported by the available tender structure.
• The framework is single-party, making supplier qualification and delivery credibility central to the commercial opportunity.
• The scope covers supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning, so bidders should qualify their ability to manage the full delivery chain.
• The available tender data does not specify the evaluation criteria, so detailed procurement materials should drive bid strategy.
• The offer language is English and the place of performance is Ireland.
• The submission deadline is 3 July 2026, giving bidders 23 calendar days from publication.

Conclusions

Louth and Meath Education and Training Board is running an open tender for a 48-month, single-party framework for specialised beauty equipment, with an estimated value of €216,000. The procurement is specific in category but broad in responsibility, covering supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning under one supplier route.

Recorded comparable awards show a market led by larger education and institutional suppliers, while specialist beauty and laboratory suppliers also appear in the named contractor activity. For bidders, the qualification decision should rest on full-scope delivery capacity, framework fit, and careful reading of the detailed procurement materials where the available tender data does not specify the evaluation criteria.

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