Public contract award · eTenders 159360
- Framework agreement
- 13 suppliers share it
ESS081F- Multisupplier Framework for the supply of Buses for the City of Dublin ETB
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Bartons Transport, Bernard Kavanagh & Sons Limited, Blueline Coaches LTD, ccs coach hire, Dublin Mini Coaches and Chauffeur Drive, Express Bus Limited, Fair Isle Tours Limited, Fran Crosbie Mini Bus Hire, James Mullally Coach Hire Limited, Marathon Coach Hire Limited, McCaffrey Coaches Limited, O'Connor Coaches Limited and O'Grady Coaches Limited on 15 April 2021, using an open procedure, and 13 bids were received. The notice publishes €600,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 13 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Apr 2025.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedBartons TransportNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedBernard Kavanagh & Sons LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedBlueline Coaches LTDNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedccs coach hireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDublin Mini Coaches and Chauffeur DriveNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedExpress Bus LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedFair Isle Tours LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedFran Crosbie Mini Bus HireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedJames Mullally Coach Hire LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedMarathon Coach Hire LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedMcCaffrey Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedO'Connor Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedO'Grady Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 13 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 Apr 2025.
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
- 13Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 159360eTenders' 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
- 189117-2021 (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 159360. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"ESS081F- Multisupplier Framework for the supply of Buses for the City of Dublin ETB", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 159360. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-159360-57201/ess081f-multisupplier-framework-for-the-supply-of-buses-for. 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.