Public contract award · TED 195130-2026
- Framework agreement
- 5 suppliers share it
TR3225F RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Bus Hire Services for University of Limerick (UL)
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Martins Coaches, J.J. Kavanagh & Sons Limited, Flight Link Limited, Hynan Travel Limited and Patrick McElligott & Sons Limited on 20 March 2026, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes €650,000 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 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
- Supplier namedMartins CoachesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedJ.J. Kavanagh & Sons LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedFlight Link LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedHynan Travel LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedPatrick McElligott & Sons LimitedMatched by company number
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 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
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Hire of passenger transport vehicles 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
- €650,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 6576039eTenders' 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
- 195130-2026 (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 195130-2026 (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 6576039. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"TR3225F RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the provision of Bus Hire Services for University of Limerick (UL)", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 195130-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-195130-2026/tr3225f-rft-to-establish-a-multi-supplier-framework. 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.