Digital for Business Programme

Carlow County Council

Appointment to a single-party Framework for the provision of consultant led support to clients of Carlow County Council Local Enterprise Office Digital for Business Programme. Digital for Business aims to provide strategic intervention for businesses to: • assist them identify where they are on their digital business journey • develop a digital adaptation plan based on their identified need • implement their digital adaptation plan with support of Grow Digital voucher. The project scope should be developed further between the business and the consultant and agreed with Local Enterprise Office Carlow. The duration of each assignment will be decided by the Local Enterprise Office based on terms and the needs of the client but will be a maximum of 12 weeks unless agreed in advance. On completion of an assignment the consultant will complete a ‘Digital Adaptation Plan’ for the client on an online portal to be advised by Local Enterprise Office Carlow. This ‘Digital Adaptation Plan’ will identify a specific intervention which would be eligible for grant support under the ‘Grow Digital’ scheme. This ‘Digital Adaptation Plan’ must also clearly identify all elements of the plan which were generated by Artificial Intelligence and were not the original work of the consultant. The consultant will also complete an application for the ‘Grow Digital’ scheme on behalf of the client as part of this assignment.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2026-04-02. The procurement was published on 2026-02-17.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2026-02-17 Contract notice
Contract notice (2026-02-17)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Digital for Business Programme
Short description:
Appointment to a single-party Framework for the provision of consultant led support to clients of Carlow County Council Local Enterprise Office Digital for Business Programme. Digital for Business aims to provide strategic intervention for businesses to: • assist them identify where they are on their digital business journey • develop a digital adaptation plan based on their identified need • implement their digital adaptation plan with support of Grow Digital voucher. The project scope should be developed further between the business and the consultant and agreed with Local Enterprise Office Carlow. The duration of each assignment will be decided by the Local Enterprise Office based on terms and the needs of the client but will be a maximum of 12 weeks unless agreed in advance. On completion of an assignment the consultant will complete a ‘Digital Adaptation Plan’ for the client on an online portal to be advised by Local Enterprise Office Carlow. This ‘Digital Adaptation Plan’ will identify a specific intervention which would be eligible for grant support under the ‘Grow Digital’ scheme. This ‘Digital Adaptation Plan’ must also clearly identify all elements of the plan which were generated by Artificial Intelligence and were not the original work of the consultant. The consultant will also complete an application for the ‘Grow Digital’ scheme on behalf of the client as part of this assignment.
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Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Production management consultancy services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 50 000 EUR 💰
Description
Internal identifier: 0
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ✅
Additional products/services:
Aim of strategic procurement: Innovative purchase
Innovation
Innovation procurement: The procured works, supplies, or services entail process innovation
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: South-East 🏙️
Duration: 2 years
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅
Legal basis: Other
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2026-04-02 12:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 180 days
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Deadline for requesting additional information: 2026-03-11 12:00:00 📅

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Carlow County Council
National registration number: 00250066U
Postal address: Athy Road
Postal code: R93E7R7
Postal town: Carlow
Region: South-East 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: etenders@carlowcoco.ie 📧
Phone: +353 599170300 📞
URL: https://www.carlow.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.carlow.ie 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Buyer contracting type: The buyer is a contracting entity
Main activity
General public services
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=7541959 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=7541959 🌏
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 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Source: OJS 2026/S 034-115003 (2026-02-17)
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