Public contract award · TED 153057-2026
Mini Competition for the provision of schoolbooks to St Geralds College 64580H
St. Gerald's College awarded this contract to Castle Book and Card Centre Limited on 5 March 2026, using a mini-competition between suppliers already on a framework. The notice publishes a value of €109,534.
- Award published
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierCastle Book and Card Centre LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 35% of contract awards, and number 1 of 3 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
- Direct Invite – Mini-CompetitionChosen from suppliers already approved on a framework agreement.
- Competition type
- DPS TenderBought through a dynamic purchasing system, which suppliers can join at any time.
- Subject (CPV)
- Printed matter and related products
- Estimated value
- €126,392What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Castlebar
- eTenders tender ID
- 5637194eTenders' 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
- 153057-2026 (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 153057-2026 (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 5637194. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Mini Competition for the provision of schoolbooks to St Geralds College 64580H", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 153057-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-153057-2026/mini-competition-for-the-provision-of-schoolbooks-to-st. 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.