Public contract award · eTenders 134759
IBTS Sample/Product Collection/Delivery Service
Irish Blood Transfusion Service awarded this contract to First Direct Medical Couriers Limited on 15 December 2018, using an open procedure, and 4 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €306,000. The published term is 24 months, to Dec 2020.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierFirst Direct Medical Couriers LimitedMatched by name and legal form
How big is it?
Larger than 62% of contract awards, and number 42 of 107 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 Dec 2020.
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
- 4Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 134759eTenders' 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
- 556009-2018 (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 134759. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"IBTS Sample/Product Collection/Delivery Service", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 134759. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-134759-66555/ibts-sample-product-collection-delivery-service. 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.