Public contract award · eTenders 137729
- 3 suppliers share it
The supply of Specialist Printing for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Department of Social Protection awarded this contract to D.C. Kavanagh Limited, Smurfit Westrock Security Concepts Limited and Spectrum Print Logistics on 10 January 2019, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €189,000. It names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 24 months, to Jan 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 namedD.C. Kavanagh LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedSmurfit Westrock Security Concepts LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedSpectrum Print LogisticsNot matched to a company record
The notice names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 49% of contract awards, and number 227 of 293 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 Jan 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
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 137729eTenders' 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
- 013893-2019 (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 137729. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The supply of Specialist Printing for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 137729. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-137729-65503/the-supply-of-specialist-printing-for-the-department-of. 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.