Public contract award · TED 344970-2026
- Framework agreement
- 5 suppliers share it
ENQEIR880 – Ground Investigation Services
EirGrid plc awarded this contract to Causeway Geotech Ltd, Irish Drilling Limited, Ground Investigations Ireland Limited, Tetra Tech Consulting Ireland Limited and Murphy Geospatial Ltd (A Woolpert Company) on 20 May 2026, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 8 bids were received. The notice publishes €40,000,000 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 96 months, to May 2034.
- 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 namedCauseway Geotech LtdNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedIrish Drilling LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedGround Investigations Ireland LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedTetra Tech Consulting Ireland LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedMurphy Geospatial Ltd (A Woolpert Company)Not matched to a company record
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 8 years, to May 2034.
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
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 8Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Ground investigation work
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €36,000,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 3598091eTenders' 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
- 344970-2026 (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 344970-2026 (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 3598091. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"ENQEIR880 – Ground Investigation Services", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 344970-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-344970-2026/enqeir880-ground-investigation-services. 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.