Public contract award · eTenders 167203
- Framework agreement
- 14 suppliers share it
The establishment of a multi operator Framework agreement for the provision of Bus Transport Services for University College Dublin
University College Dublin ( UCD ) awarded this contract to Bartons Transport, Blueline Coaches LTD, Dualway Coaches Limited, Eirebus Limited, Express Bus Limited, Extreme Event Ireland Limited, Fair Isle Tours Limited, Glynns Coach Hire (Ennis) Limited, Irish Concert Travel Limited, J.J. Kavanagh & Sons Limited, Joe Moroney Coach Hire Limited, Marathon Coach Hire Limited, McCaffrey Coaches Limited and O'Grady Coaches Limited on 13 August 2021, using an open procedure, and 14 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 14 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Aug 2025.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedBartons TransportNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedBlueline Coaches LTDNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDualway Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedEirebus LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedExpress Bus LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedExtreme Event Ireland LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedFair Isle Tours LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedGlynns Coach Hire (Ennis) LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedIrish Concert Travel LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedJ.J. Kavanagh & Sons LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedJoe Moroney Coach Hire LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedMarathon Coach Hire LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedMcCaffrey Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedO'Grady Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 14 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 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
- 14Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 167203eTenders' 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
- 416722-2021 (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 167203. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The establishment of a multi operator Framework agreement for the provision of Bus Transport Services for University College Dublin", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 167203. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-167203-54431/the-establishment-of-a-multi-operator-framework-agreement. 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.