Public contract award · eTenders 107052
- Framework agreement
- 5 suppliers share it
Request for tender for the provision of Courier Services for the Island of Ireland
The Office of Government Procurement awarded this contract to An Post, DHL Same Day, DX Ireland, First Direct Medical Couriers Limited and Pony Express Limited on 23 November 2016, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes €3,000,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 24 months, to Nov 2018.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedAn PostNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDHL Same DayNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDX IrelandNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedFirst Direct Medical Couriers LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedPony Express LimitedMatched by name and legal form
The notice names 5 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 2 years, to Nov 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
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 107052eTenders' 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
- 413606-2016 (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 107052. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Request for tender for the provision of Courier Services for the Island of Ireland", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 107052. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-107052-75907/request-for-tender-for-the-provision-of-courier-services. 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.