Public contract award · eTenders 228173
Blood donations are collected from collection clinics each evening and transported to the National Blood Centre. Samples and other materials associated with the blood donations are also transport
Irish Blood Transfusion Service awarded this contract to First Direct Medical Couriers Limited on 10 February 2023, using an open procedure, and 3 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €425,080. The published term is 36 months, to Feb 2026.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierFirst Direct Medical Couriers LimitedMatched by name and legal form
How big is it?
Larger than 69% of contract awards, and number 34 of 107 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 Feb 2026.
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
- 3Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 228173eTenders' 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
- 089731-2023 (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 228173. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Blood donations are collected from collection clinics each evening and transported to the National Blood Centre. Samples and other materials associated with the blood donations are also transport", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 228173. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-228173-30859/blood-donations-are-collected-from-collection-clinics-each. 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.