Public contract award · eTenders 127649
- 7 suppliers share it
Explorers Outreach Centres
Marine Institute awarded this contract to Carmel T. Madigan, Galway Atlantaquaria Limited, Leave No Trace (Ireland), LH Marine and Sea Synergy Marine Awareness, Lifetime Lab, Marine Dimensions Limited and Oceanics Surf School on 28 March 2018, using an open procedure, and 9 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €165,695. It names 7 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 36 months, to Mar 2021.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedCarmel T. MadiganNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedGalway Atlantaquaria LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedLeave No Trace (Ireland)Matched by exact name
- Supplier namedLH Marine and Sea Synergy Marine AwarenessNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedLifetime LabNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMarine Dimensions LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedOceanics Surf SchoolNot matched to a company record
The notice names 7 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 46% of contract awards, and number 96 of 153 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 3 years, to Mar 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
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 9Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 127649eTenders' 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
- 137735-2018 (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 127649. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Explorers Outreach Centres", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 127649. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-127649-68990/explorers-outreach-centres. 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.