Public contract award · eTenders 169874
- 2 suppliers share it
Provision of Library Books to Cork City Council Library Service in 3 No. Lots
Cork City Council awarded this contract to International Education Services and O'Mahonys Booksellers Limited on 9 October 2020, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €1,855,000. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 36 months, to Oct 2023.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedInternational Education ServicesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedO'Mahonys Booksellers 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 big is it?
Larger than 88% of contract awards, and number 27 of 225 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 3 years, to Oct 2023.
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
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 169874eTenders' 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
- 480671-2020 (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 169874. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Provision of Library Books to Cork City Council Library Service in 3 No. Lots", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 169874. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-169874-53159/provision-of-library-books-to-cork-city-council-library. 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.