Public contract award · eTenders 170358
- Framework agreement
- 12 suppliers share it
ESS098F -Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of the Supply of Bus hire Services for Laois Offaly ETB
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Carrolls Coaches Limited, Devine's Hackney and bus hire ltd, Digan Bus Hire Limited, Eamon Siney Bus Service, Flaherty's of Kinnitty, K. Buggy Coaches Limited, Laois Offaly Local Link, Michael Boylan Limited, micheal dempsey, PJ Martley Limited, Rohan Transport Limited and Walshs Coaches on 3 July 2021, using an open procedure, and 12 bids were received. The notice publishes €572,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 12 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Jul 2025.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedCarrolls Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedDevine's Hackney and bus hire ltdNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDigan Bus Hire LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedEamon Siney Bus ServiceNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedFlaherty's of KinnittyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedK. Buggy Coaches LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedLaois Offaly Local LinkNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMichael Boylan LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedmicheal dempseyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedPJ Martley LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedRohan Transport LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedWalshs CoachesNot matched to a company record
The notice names 12 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 Jul 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
- 12Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 170358eTenders' 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
- 340429-2021 (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 170358. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"ESS098F -Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of the Supply of Bus hire Services for Laois Offaly ETB", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 170358. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-170358-52966/ess098f-multi-supplier-framework-agreement-for-the. 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.