The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events. Services include weekday breakfast and lunch, all-day beverages, conference and meeting catering, and other on-demand catering services. The contractor must deliver fresh, healthy, culturally diverse food, meet high food safety, hygiene and sustainability standards, manage the canteen facilities, and ensure efficient, reliable service aligned with Eurofound’s operational needs.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2026-02-05.
The procurement was published on 2025-12-17.
Contract notice (2025-12-17) Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Provision of canteen and catering services at Eurofound - HR/7265
Reference number: EUROFOUND/2025/OP/0018
Short description:
“The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events....”
Short description
The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events. Services include weekday breakfast and lunch, all-day beverages, conference and meeting catering, and other on-demand catering services. The contractor must deliver fresh, healthy, culturally diverse food, meet high food safety, hygiene and sustainability standards, manage the canteen facilities, and ensure efficient, reliable service aligned with Eurofound’s operational needs.
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Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Canteen and catering services📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 762 000 EUR 💰
Description
Description of the procurement:
“The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events....”
Description of the procurement
The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events. Services include weekday breakfast and lunch, all-day beverages, conference and meeting catering, and other on-demand catering services. The contractor must deliver fresh, healthy, culturally diverse food, meet high food safety, hygiene and sustainability standards, manage the canteen facilities, and ensure efficient, reliable service aligned with Eurofound’s operational needs.
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Additional products/services: Catering services📦
Main site or place of performance:
“Please consult the procurement documents.”
Duration: 48 (MONTH)
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Please consult the procurement documents.
Quality criterion (weighting): 60
Price ✅
Price (weighting): 40
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Procedure Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅ Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2026-02-05 14:00:59 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2026-02-06 10:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Bulgarian 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Czech 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Danish 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: German 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Greek 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Estonian 🗣️
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Irish 🗣️
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Latvian 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Maltese 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Dutch 🗣️
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Romanian 🗣️
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Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Slovenian 🗣️
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: Swedish 🗣️
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators ✅
“The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events....”
The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events. Services include weekday breakfast and lunch, all-day beverages, conference and meeting catering, and other on-demand catering services. The contractor must deliver fresh, healthy, culturally diverse food, meet high food safety, hygiene and sustainability standards, manage the canteen facilities, and ensure efficient, reliable service aligned with Eurofound’s operational needs.In case of unavailability or disruptions in the functioning of the electronic means of communication provided in Section 5.1.11 in the last 5 calendar days before the time limit for receipt indicated in Section 5.1.12, the contracting authority reserves the right to extend this time limit and publish the extension at the Internet address provided in Section 5.1.11, without a preceding publication of a corrigendum to this notice. Economic operators interested in this procurement are invited to subscribe to the call for tenders at the address in Section 5.1.11 in order to get notified when new information or documents are published.
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Name: Court of Justice of the European Union
National registration number: Curia
Postal address: Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
Postal code: L-2925
Postal town: Luxembourg
Region: Luxembourg 🏙️
Country: Luxembourg 🇱🇺
E-mail: gc.registry@curia.europa.eu📧
Phone: +352 4303-1📞
URL: http://curia.europa.eu🌏 Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
National registration number: Eurofound
Postal address: Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown
Postal code: D18 KP65
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: ef-procurement@eurofound.europa.eu📧
Phone: +353 1 204 31 00📞
URL: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/🌏 Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic payment will be used
Source: OJS 2025/S 244-843683 (2025-12-17)
Contract award notice (2026-03-16) Object Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 762 000 EUR 💰
Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded ✅
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Contract Number: 26-1400-01
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2026-03-13 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
Name and address of the contractor
Name: The Q Cafe Company Limited
National registration number: IE8298794E
Postal address: 1 St James Terrace, Clonskeagh
Postal code: D06 XK60
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Extra-Regio NUTS 3🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: l.olson@qcafe.ie📧
Phone: +35312079044📞
Complementary information Additional information
“The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events....”
The contract covers the provision of comprehensive canteen and catering services at Eurofound’s Dublin premises, serving staff, visitors and events. Services include weekday breakfast and lunch, all-day beverages, conference and meeting catering, and other on-demand catering services. The contractor must deliver fresh, healthy, culturally diverse food, meet high food safety, hygiene and sustainability standards, manage the canteen facilities, and ensure efficient, reliable service aligned with Eurofound’s operational needs.
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Source: OJS 2026/S 053-182175 (2026-03-16)