Public contract award · eTenders 208502
- 2 suppliers share it
Communications & PR Support
Bord Bia (Irish Food Board) awarded this contract to &Smyth Creative Communications LIMITED and Murray Consultants Ltd on 25 March 2023, using an open procedure, and 6 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €450,000. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 12 months, to Mar 2024.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier named&Smyth Creative Communications LIMITEDMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedMurray Consultants LtdNot matched to a company record
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 70% of contract awards, and number 60 of 158 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 1 year, to Mar 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
- Open ProcedureAny business could bid.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 6Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 208502eTenders' 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
- 185038-2023 (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 208502. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Communications & PR Support", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 208502. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-208502-38194/communications-and-pr-support. 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.