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 "title": "Who sells consulting to An Post? Public consulting awards of the last 24 months",
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   "slug": "department-of-enterprise-trade-and-employment",
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   "country": "IRL"
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  {
   "buyer": "Coimisiún na Meán",
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   "country": "IRL"
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  {
   "buyer": "Department of the Environment Climate and Communications",
   "slug": "department-of-the-environment-climate-and-communications",
   "awards": 14,
   "country": "IRL"
  },
  {
   "buyer": "Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage",
   "slug": "department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage",
   "awards": 15,
   "country": "IRL"
  },
  {
   "buyer": "Department of Climate Energy and the Environment",
   "slug": "department-of-climate-energy-and-the-environment",
   "awards": 17,
   "country": "IRL"
  },
  {
   "buyer": "Bord Bia (Irish Food Board)",
   "slug": "bord-bia-irish-food-board",
   "awards": 26,
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 ],
 "market_pages": [
  {
   "id": "IRL-strategy",
   "country": "IRL",
   "kind": "strategy",
   "awards_here": 9
  },
  {
   "id": "IRL-all",
   "country": "IRL",
   "kind": "all",
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 "sources": {
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 },
 "langs": [
  "en"
 ],
 "pages": {
  "en": "https://arquestra.dev/buyers/en/an-post"
 },
 "radar": "https://arquestra.dev/assets/consulting?q=An%20Post&kinds=strategy,transformation,platform,build_run&src=buyer-card",
 "method": "Arquestra Consulting Market Radar, built 2026-10-30 from TED (eForms) and national registers (France DECP/BOAMP, Spain PLACSP, Germany, Netherlands): public consulting awards from EUR 15,000 up of the last 24 months, classified by kind of work; work outside consulting left out. Spellings of the buyer's name are merged within one country. Spending: the published value of each award other than a framework, values of EUR 150 M or more left out; frameworks are counted apart (their value is a ceiling). An award with several winners counts once for each firm.",
 "licence": {
  "name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
  "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/",
  "commercial_use": "Commercial reuse needs a licence: https://arquestra.dev/assets/consulting/api#more"
 },
 "author": "Pablo Ramos-Sánchez",
 "cite": {
  "text": "Source: Arquestra Consulting Market Radar (arquestra.dev), An Post, data of 2026-10-30",
  "url": "https://arquestra.dev/buyers/en/an-post"
 }
}