Public contract award · eTenders 105132
- Framework agreement
- 9 suppliers share it
Request for Tender for Framework Agreement for the Provision of Wide Area Connectivity Framework
The Office of Government Procurement awarded this contract to BBnet, eircom Limited (t/a eir business), Gas Networks Ireland, Irish Telecom, Ripple Communications Limited, Strencom, Viatel Ireland Limited, Virgin Media Ireland Limited and Vodafone on 20 July 2017, using an open procedure, and 10 bids were received. The notice publishes €40,000,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 9 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Jul 2021.
- Award published
- Term ends
Open the eTenders data on data.gov.ie (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedBBnetNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedeircom Limited (t/a eir business)Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedGas Networks IrelandMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedIrish TelecomNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedRipple Communications LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedStrencomNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedViatel Ireland LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedVirgin Media Ireland LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedVodafoneNot matched to a company record
The notice names 9 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How long does it run?
A published term of 4 years, to Jul 2021.
The term is the notice’s duration counted from the award date. A contract may be extended or end early; the notices do not say.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Open ProcedureAny business could bid.
- Competition type
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 10Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 105132eTenders' 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
- 283101-2017 (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 105132. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Request for Tender for Framework Agreement for the Provision of Wide Area Connectivity Framework", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 105132. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-105132-73985/request-for-tender-for-framework-agreement-for-the. 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.