Provision of canteen and catering services at Eurofound - HR/7265
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
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.
DeadlineThe time limit for receipt of tenders was 2026-02-05. The procurement was published on 2025-12-17.
SuppliersThe following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Who? What? Where?- • Eastern and Midland › Dublin
- • Luxembourg › Luxembourg
- • Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest › Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | Contract notice |
| 2026-03-16 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2025-12-17)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Provision of canteen and catering services at Eurofound - HR/7265
Reference number:
Short description:
Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Canteen and catering services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 762 000 EUR 💰
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ✅
Description
Internal identifier:
Additional products/services: Catering services 📦
Main site or place of performance: Please consult the procurement documents.
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Duration: 48 months
Maximum renewals: 3
Other information about renewals:
Quality criterion (name): Please consult the procurement documents.
Quality criterion (weighting): 60
Price ✅
Price (weighting): 40
Title
Lot Identification Number:
Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅
Legal basis: Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509
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 🗣️
Czech 🗣️
German 🗣️
Greek 🗣️
English 🗣️
Spanish 🗣️
Estonian 🗣️
Finnish 🗣️
French 🗣️
Irish 🗣️
Croatian 🗣️
Hungarian 🗣️
Italian 🗣️
Lithuanian 🗣️
Latvian 🗣️
Maltese 🗣️
Dutch 🗣️
Polish 🗣️
Portuguese 🗣️
Romanian 🗣️
Slovak 🗣️
Slovenian 🗣️
Swedish 🗣️
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6 months
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators ✅
Maximum number of participants: 1
Tendering terms
Opening date: 2026-02-06 10:00:00 📅
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2026-01-27 📅
Award criteria
Weight type: Weight (percentage, exact)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
National registration number:
Department: Ef.adir - agency directorate,ef.adir.re - resources
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/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
Main activity
General public services
Communication
Documents URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/ebf2cf1c-79d5-44a2-a1a7-35dc20933225-CN?#anchorDocuments 🌏
Participation URL: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/digit/opsys/esubmission?cftUuid=ebf2cf1c-79d5-44a2-a1a7-35dc20933225 🌏
Procurement tool URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/ebf2cf1c-79d5-44a2-a1a7-35dc20933225-CN?#anchorDocuments 🌏
Name: Funding and Tenders Portal
Procurement document language: English 🗣️
Electronic submission: Required
Complementary information
Additional information
Review body
Name: Court of Justice of the European Union
National registration number:
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
Same as: Name and addresses
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 244-843683 (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. 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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Products/services: Canteen and catering services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 762 000 EUR 💰
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ✅
Description
Internal identifier:
EUROFOUND/2025/OP/0018
Additional products/services: Catering services 📦
Main site or place of performance: Please consult the procurement documents.
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Duration: 48 months
Maximum renewals: 3
Other information about renewals:
The framework contract is concluded for an initial period of 12 (twelve) months, renewable 3 (three) time(s). Please consult the draft framework contract in the procurement documents.
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 ✅
Legal basis: Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509
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 🗣️
Czech 🗣️
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Danish 🗣️German 🗣️
Greek 🗣️
English 🗣️
Spanish 🗣️
Estonian 🗣️
Finnish 🗣️
French 🗣️
Irish 🗣️
Croatian 🗣️
Hungarian 🗣️
Italian 🗣️
Lithuanian 🗣️
Latvian 🗣️
Maltese 🗣️
Dutch 🗣️
Polish 🗣️
Portuguese 🗣️
Romanian 🗣️
Slovak 🗣️
Slovenian 🗣️
Swedish 🗣️
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators ✅
Maximum number of participants: 1
Tendering terms
Opening date: 2026-02-06 10:00:00 📅
Electronic invoicing: Allowed
Electronic ordering will be used ✅
Electronic payment will be used ✅
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2026-01-27 📅
Award criteria
Weight type: Weight (percentage, exact)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
National registration number:
EUROFOUND
Department: Ef.adir - agency directorate,ef.adir.re - resources
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/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
European Institution/Agency or International Organisation
Main activity
General public services
Communication
Documents URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/ebf2cf1c-79d5-44a2-a1a7-35dc20933225-CN?#anchorDocuments 🌏
Participation URL: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/digit/opsys/esubmission?cftUuid=ebf2cf1c-79d5-44a2-a1a7-35dc20933225 🌏
Procurement tool URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/tender-details/ebf2cf1c-79d5-44a2-a1a7-35dc20933225-CN?#anchorDocuments 🌏
Name: Funding and Tenders Portal
Procurement document language: English 🗣️
Electronic submission: Required
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. 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
Same as: Name and addresses
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
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 💰
Maximum value of the framework agreements in this notice: 762 000 EUR 💰
Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded ✅
Lot Identification Number:
Contract Number:
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2026-03-13 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Maximum value of the framework agreement: 762 000 EUR 💰
Tender identifier:
Identifier of lot or group of lots:
Name and address of the contractor
Name: The Q Cafe Company Limited
National registration number:
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 📞
Size of the economic operator: Large
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Department: Eurofound.adir - agency directorate,eurofound.adir.re - resources
Complementary information
Additional information
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Department: Eurofound.adir - agency directorate,eurofound.adir.re - resources
Source: OJS 2026/S 053-182175 (2026-03-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 762 000 EUR 💰
Maximum value of the framework agreements in this notice: 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
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Maximum value of the framework agreement: 762 000 EUR 💰
Tender identifier:
300154352
Identifier of lot or group of lots:
LOT-0001
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 📞
Size of the economic operator: Large
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Department: Eurofound.adir - agency directorate,eurofound.adir.re - resources
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. 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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Department: Eurofound.adir - agency directorate,eurofound.adir.re - resources
Source: OJS 2026/S 053-182175 (2026-03-16)
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