Public contract award · eTenders 105562
- 2 suppliers share it
This tender is for the acquisition of marine ROV systems by the University of Limerick suitable for inspection and intervention on Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) infrastructure.
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Forum Energy Technologies (UK) Ltd and iXBlue SAS on 28 October 2016, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €2,083,947. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 24 months, to Oct 2018.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedForum Energy Technologies (UK) LtdNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namediXBlue SASNot 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?
Larger than 89% of contract awards, and number 20 of 497 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
How long does it run?
A published term of 2 years, to Oct 2018.
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
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 105562eTenders' 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
- 380899-2016 (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 105562. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"This tender is for the acquisition of marine ROV systems by the University of Limerick suitable for inspection and intervention on Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) infrastructure.", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 105562. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-105562-76463/this-tender-is-for-the-acquisition-of-marine-rov-systems-by. 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.