Public contract award · TED 154148-2024
Contract For the Supply of Courier Services
Bus Eireann/Irish Bus awarded this contract to Pony Express Limited on 14 March 2024, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €400,000. The published term is 36 months, to Mar 2027.
- 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
- SupplierPony Express LimitedMatched by name and legal form
How big is it?
Larger than 67% of contract awards, and number 39 of 44 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 Mar 2027.
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
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Post and courier services
- Estimated value
- €300,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 2051107eTenders' 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
- 154148-2024 (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 154148-2024 (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 2051107. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Contract For the Supply of Courier Services", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 154148-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-154148-2024/contract-for-the-supply-of-courier-services. 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.