Coira turns the construction award and tender notices that Ireland already publishes into something a firm can actually price, bid and plan from — with the source on every figure.
I'm a mechanical & electrical (building-services) engineer working in Ireland. Day to day I work on the same things Coira is built for: sizing and specifying M&E systems, pricing packages, and trying to sense-check a number before it goes into a tender.
Coira started as my own frustration. When you're pricing a job or checking who you're bidding against, the information exists — it's published — but it's scattered across notices nobody has time to read. I wanted one place that reads all of it and gives me a straight answer, with the source attached so I can defend it.
The large intelligence tools that do this — the ones that tell you what work is coming, what it cost last time, and who won — are expensive, UK-centred, and priced for the biggest firms. A small or mid-sized Irish contractor, subcontractor or consultancy is left pricing on memory and gut.
Coira reads every construction award and tender notice published on TED, the EU's official procurement journal, across 30 markets — Ireland the deepest and refreshed nightly — and turns it into benchmarks, buyer and contractor track records, and live tenders you can act on.
Public award data is the start, not the destination. The direction is a private bid-intelligence system for Irish construction firms: the public market, plus your own bid history, documents and win/loss learning, kept in one place. So over time Coira doesn't just tell you what the market did : it tells you how you price against it, where you win, and where you're leaving money behind.
Coira is indicative intelligence built from real, published tender data — sourced and checkable on every figure. It's built to get you oriented fast: budgeting, sense-checking, market awareness. It is not a substitute for a chartered quantity surveyor's cost plan when real money is on the line. We'd rather you trust it because you understand its limits — see the methodology.
Questions, feedback, or want to talk about your firm's bidding? info@coir.ie