Public contract award · TED 128365-2024
- Framework agreement
- 5 suppliers share it
TR2689F - CFT for the Provision of Bus Hire Services for Maynooth University
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to McCaffrey Coaches Limited, James Mullally Coach Hire Limited, Bartons Transport, Carolan Coach Hire_38658 and Passenger Travel Solutions Limited on 1 March 2024, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes €280,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Mar 2028.
- 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
- Supplier namedMcCaffrey Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedJames Mullally Coach Hire LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedBartons TransportNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedCarolan Coach Hire_38658Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedPassenger Travel Solutions LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 5 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How long does it run?
A published term of 4 years, to Mar 2028.
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
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Hire of buses and coaches with driver
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €280,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 2596156eTenders' 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
- 128365-2024 (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 128365-2024 (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 2596156. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"TR2689F - CFT for the Provision of Bus Hire Services for Maynooth University", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 128365-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-128365-2024/tr2689f-cft-for-the-provision-of-bus-hire-services-for. 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.