Public contract award · eTenders 166259
- Framework agreement
- 5 suppliers share it
Multi-Party Framework for the Provision of IT Services
EirGrid plc awarded this contract to Accenture Limited, Ernst and Young, IBM, Tata Consultancy Services Limited and VERSION1 Software Limited on 14 January 2021, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 26 bids were received. The notice publishes €57,000,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 36 months, to Jan 2024.
- 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 namedAccenture LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedErnst and YoungNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedIBMNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedTata Consultancy Services LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedVERSION1 Software LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 5 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 3 years, to Jan 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
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 26Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 166259eTenders' 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
- 020723-2021 (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 166259. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Multi-Party Framework for the Provision of IT Services", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 166259. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-166259-54675/multi-party-framework-for-the-provision-of-it-services. 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.