Public contract award · TED 297861-2026
- 2 suppliers share it
LA3540C-UL-CFT-Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of a Mobile Transient Mass Spectrometer and a FTIR+ATR Spectrometer for the University of Limerick (UL) [2 Lots]
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Hiden Analytical Ltd and thermo fisher scientific on 30 April 2026, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €174,965. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 60 months, to Apr 2031.
- 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 namedHiden Analytical LtdNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedthermo fisher scientificNot 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 47% of contract awards, and number 334 of 493 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 5 years, to Apr 2031.
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
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- Estimated value
- €154,500What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 7178935eTenders' 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
- 297861-2026 (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 297861-2026 (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 7178935. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"LA3540C-UL-CFT-Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of a Mobile Transient Mass Spectrometer and a FTIR+ATR Spectrometer for the University of Limerick (UL) [2 Lots]", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 297861-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-297861-2026/la3540c-ul-cft-supply-delivery-installation-and. 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.