Public contract award · TED 304869-2025
- 4 suppliers share it
RFT to be Included in a Panel for the Provision of Maintenance, Servicing and Repair of Kare's Bus Fleet
Kare awarded this contract to D & M Truck Engineering Limited, Midland Auto Salvage Limited, PG Duffy and Sons and Brennans Garage on 13 May 2025, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €500,000. It names 4 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to May 2029.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedD & M Truck Engineering LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedMidland Auto Salvage LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedPG Duffy and SonsNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedBrennans GarageNot matched to a company record
The notice names 4 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 72% of contract awards, and number 2 of 107 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 4 years, to May 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
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Repair and maintenance services of cars
- Estimated value
- €430,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Newbridge
- eTenders tender ID
- 4606079eTenders' 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
- 304869-2025 (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 304869-2025 (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 4606079. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"RFT to be Included in a Panel for the Provision of Maintenance, Servicing and Repair of Kare's Bus Fleet", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 304869-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-304869-2025/rft-to-be-included-in-a-panel-for-the-provision-of. 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.