Public contract award · eTenders 102612
- 2 suppliers share it
Procurement of Buses & Coaches for Bus Eireann
Bus Eireann/Irish Bus awarded this contract to VDL Bus and Coach BV and Volvo Group UK Ltd T/A Volvo Bus on 12 July 2018, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €30,088,000. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published.
- Award published
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedVDL Bus and Coach BVNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedVolvo Group UK Ltd T/A Volvo BusNot matched to a company record
The notice names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Only 200 of 23,951 contract awards are larger, and number 1 of 44 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 102612eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
- TED notice
- 301575-2018 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
Check it yourself
The official record this page is built from.
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 102612. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Procurement of Buses & Coaches for Bus Eireann", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 102612. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-102612-77658/procurement-of-buses-and-coaches-for-bus-eireann. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
Published records, not allegations. An award shows who a public body chose to buy from, as it published; it is not a payment and says nothing about how the supplier was chosen beyond what the notice states.