Public contract award · TED 179528-2026
- 2 suppliers share it
Stage 2 – Invite to Tender for the Supply of Schoolbooks to Laois Offaly Education and Training Board
Laois Offaly Education Training Board awarded this contract to O'Mahonys Booksellers Limited and Stakelums on 16 March 2026, using a mini-competition between suppliers already on a framework. The notice publishes a value of €2,800,000. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published.
- Award published
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedO'Mahonys Booksellers LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedStakelumsNot matched to a company record
The notice names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 91% of contract awards.
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
- Buyer town
- Portlaoise
- eTenders tender ID
- 7205698eTenders' 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
- 179528-2026 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
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The official records this page is built from.
- TED contract award notice 179528-2026 (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 7205698. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Stage 2 – Invite to Tender for the Supply of Schoolbooks to Laois Offaly Education and Training Board", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 179528-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-179528-2026/stage-2-invite-to-tender-for-the-supply-of-schoolbooks-to. 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.