Public contract award · eTenders 79015
The supply and installation of Scanning Electron Microscope, detector and computer system primarily for the automated detection of firearms discharge residue / gunshot residue (GSR).
Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration awarded this contract to Carl Zeiss Ltd on 30 January 2014, using an open procedure, and 3 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €140,000.
- Award published
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierCarl Zeiss LtdMatched by exact name
How big is it?
Larger than 41% of contract awards, and number 151 of 169 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
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
- 79015eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
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 79015. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The supply and installation of Scanning Electron Microscope, detector and computer system primarily for the automated detection of firearms discharge residue / gunshot residue (GSR).", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 79015. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-79015-84306/the-supply-and-installation-of-scanning-electron-microscope. 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.