Public contract award · eTenders 127848
- 2 suppliers share it
Cellular M2M Communications Service for ESB Networks’ Smart Metering Project.
Electricity Supply Board ( ESB ) awarded this contract to Three Ireland and Vodafone Ireland Limited on 17 May 2019, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €7,400,000. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 30 months, to Nov 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 namedThree IrelandNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedVodafone Ireland LimitedMatched by exact name
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 96% of contract awards, and number 22 of 100 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 30 months, to Nov 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
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment
- eTenders tender ID
- 127848eTenders' 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
- 233083-2019 (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 127848. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Cellular M2M Communications Service for ESB Networks’ Smart Metering Project.", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 127848. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-127848-68738/cellular-m2m-communications-service-for-esb-networks-smart. 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.