Public contract award · eTenders 153963
- Framework agreement
- 2 suppliers share it
National Framework Agreement for Blood Culture Systems
Health Service Executive (HSE) awarded this contract to Aquilant Scientific (Roi) Limited and Biomerieux UK Limited on 29 August 2020, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The published term is 48 months, to Aug 2024.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedAquilant Scientific (Roi) LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedBiomerieux UK 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 long does it run?
A published term of 4 years, to Aug 2024.
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
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 153963eTenders' 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
- 408997-2020 (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 153963. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"National Framework Agreement for Blood Culture Systems", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 153963. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-153963-59376/national-framework-agreement-for-blood-culture-systems. 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.