HRB 2025 - Bibliometric Tool 2025-2029
The Health Research Board
The Health Research Board (hereinafter referred to as the โHRBโ) is a statutory agency under the aegis of the Department of Health. The HRBโs mission is to support research that improves people's health, promotes evidence-informed care, and creates solutions to societal challenges. Our vison is โbetter health through excellent research, data and evidence.โ An overview of the HRBโs objectives and activities may be found in The HRB Strategy 2021-2025, Health research - making an impact, (https://www.hrb.ie/strategy-2025/). Peer review is at the heart of HRB funding decisions and underpins every decision in our external funding portfolio of approximately โฌ55m p.a. As an organisation driven by research evidence, the HRB requires means to access the most recent publications across all health-relevant areas for a variety of reasons. It has had access to a bibliometric tool since 2020. This has been used extensively for three processes across the organisation: (1) Peer reviewer identification in the funding function, (2) systematic searches for evidence in the Evidence Centre to provide evidence synthesis products to the DOH, and (3) evaluation of our funding portfolio. With very few exceptions we use a two-step approach where we first identify, contact, invite, follow up with, acknowledge and validate reviews from international experts in the area. The expert peer reviewers are specifically matched to individual applications we receive. Secondly, we invite a panel of experts in the broad area of focus or emphasis of the scheme. These panel members compare applications against each other on the basis of our assessment criteria and make a final funding recommendation for the Board. Identifying relevant reviewers that are closely matched with an application (and where there are no conflicts of interest) is a time- and labour-intensive task. Our experience is that many potential peer reviewers donโt respond, some respond but donโt accept the invitation, and others accept but donโt submit the review at all or within our deadline. The HRB is now seeking to obtain a licence for a bibliometric tool.
DeadlineThe time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-09-03. The procurement was published on 2025-08-15.
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| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2025-08-15 | Contract notice |
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: HRB 2025 - Bibliometric Tool 2025-2029
Short description:
โThe Health Research Board (hereinafter referred to as the โHRBโ) is a statutory agency under the aegis of the Department of Health. The HRBโs mission is to...โ
Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Data services ๐ฆ
Estimated value excluding VAT: 220 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Description
Internal identifier: 0
Estimated value excluding VAT: 220 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Description of the procurement:
โThe Health Research Board (hereinafter referred to as the โHRBโ) is a statutory agency under the aegis of the Department of Health. The HRBโs mission is to...โ
Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Data services ๐ฆ
Country: Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
Place of performance: Dublin ๐๏ธ
Duration: 4 (YEAR)
The time frame below is expressed in number of years.
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure โ
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-09-03 12:00:00 ๐
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2025-09-03 12:30:00 ๐
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=6316102
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐ฃ๏ธ
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 90
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Opening date: 2025-09-03 12:30:00 ๐
Place:
โhttps://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=6316102โ
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐ฃ๏ธ
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic ordering will be used โ
Electronic payment will be used โ
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2025-08-25 10:00:00 ๐
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: The Health Research Board
National registration number: IE4820764P
Postal address: 67-72 Lower Mount Street,
Postal code: DO2 H638
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin ๐๏ธ
Country: Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
E-mail: alynch@hrb.ie ๐ง
Phone: 35312345000 ๐
URL: https://www.hrb.ie/ ๐
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.hrb.ie/ ๐
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Health
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=6316102 ๐
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=6316102 ๐
Electronic submission: Required
Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin ๐๏ธ
Country: Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐ง
Phone: +353 1 8886000 ๐
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin ๐๏ธ
Country: Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐ง
Phone: +353 1 8886000 ๐
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic payment will be used
Source: OJS 2025/S 157-537961 (2025-08-15)