Public contract award · TED 266221-2026
Call for Tender for the provision of Hot Meals under the School Meals Scheme to Réalt na Mara NS 20339E
Realt na Mara NS awarded this contract to The Lunch Bag Limited on 20 April 2026, using an open procedure, and 4 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €814,195. The published term is 36 months, to Apr 2029.
- 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
- SupplierThe Lunch Bag LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 80% of contract awards.
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 Apr 2029.
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
- 4Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- School-meal services
- Estimated value
- €814,195What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dundalk
- eTenders tender ID
- 6948849eTenders' 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
- 266221-2026 (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 266221-2026 (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 6948849. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Call for Tender for the provision of Hot Meals under the School Meals Scheme to Réalt na Mara NS 20339E", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 266221-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-266221-2026/call-for-tender-for-the-provision-of-hot-meals-under-the. 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.