Public contract award · eTenders 188753
- 3 suppliers share it
Supply of Motorcycle Suits, Protective Clothing, Footwear, Helmets, and Equipment to An Garda Síochána and the Irish Defence Forces - FSU063F
The Office of Government Procurement awarded this contract to Akarai (Ireland) Limited, Bond Safety and James Boylan Safety Limited on 1 December 2022, using an open procedure, and 7 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €2,437,000. It names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 36 months, to Dec 2025.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedAkarai (Ireland) LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedBond SafetyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedJames Boylan Safety LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 90% of contract awards, and number 215 of 2,512 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 Dec 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
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 7Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 188753eTenders' 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
- 668617-2022 (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 188753. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Supply of Motorcycle Suits, Protective Clothing, Footwear, Helmets, and Equipment to An Garda Síochána and the Irish Defence Forces - FSU063F", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 188753. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-188753-45874/supply-of-motorcycle-suits-protective-clothing-footwear. 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.