Public contract award · TED 110629-2026
Request for Tenders for the provision of Public Service Obligation (PSO) air services between Donegal and Dublin airports
Department of Transport awarded this contract to Emerald Airlines Ireland Limited on 16 February 2026, using an open procedure, and 1 bid was received. The notice publishes a value of €24,000,000. The published term is 48 months, to Feb 2030.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierEmerald Airlines Ireland LimitedMatched by exact name
How big is it?
Only 343 of 24,510 contract awards are larger, and number 1 of 117 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 4 years, to Feb 2030.
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
- 1Only one bid was received.
- Subject (CPV)
- Scheduled air transport services
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 6341835eTenders' 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
- 110629-2026 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
Check it yourself
The official records this page is built from.
- TED contract award notice 110629-2026 (opens in a new tab)
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 6341835. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Request for Tenders for the provision of Public Service Obligation (PSO) air services between Donegal and Dublin airports", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 110629-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-110629-2026/request-for-tenders-for-the-provision-of-public-service. 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.