Public contract award · eTenders 152249
- 5 suppliers share it
The provision of Bus Transport Services for Donegal ETB Youthreach Centres, Training Centre and Music Education Centre
Donegal Education and Training Board awarded this contract to Ayton Coaches Limited, Dan Gibbons, Seamus Holmes, Seamus Lafferty Buses Limited and Travelmaster Bus and Coach on 4 October 2019, using an open procedure, and 15 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €900,000. 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 Oct 2021.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedAyton Coaches LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedDan GibbonsNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedSeamus HolmesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedSeamus Lafferty Buses LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedTravelmaster Bus and CoachNot matched to a company record
The notice names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 81% of contract awards, and number 6 of 70 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 Oct 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
- 15Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 152249eTenders' 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
- 469412-2019 (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 152249. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The provision of Bus Transport Services for Donegal ETB Youthreach Centres, Training Centre and Music Education Centre", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 152249. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-152249-60310/the-provision-of-bus-transport-services-for-donegal-etb. 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.