Public contract award · TED 349091-2026
Request for Tenders for the provision of the hire of Specialist Vehicles for Delegations attending Official and State events for Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union Council 2026
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála awarded this contract to Optimum Chauffeur Drive Limited on 21 May 2026, using an open procedure, and 1 bid was received. The notice publishes a value of €1,200,000. The published term is 13 months, to Jun 2027.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierOptimum Chauffeur Drive LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 85% of contract awards, and number 15 of 95 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 13 months, to Jun 2027.
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
- 1Only one bid was received.
- Subject (CPV)
- Motor vehicles
- Estimated value
- €950,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 7201241eTenders' 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
- 349091-2026 (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 349091-2026 (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 7201241. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Request for Tenders for the provision of the hire of Specialist Vehicles for Delegations attending Official and State events for Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union Council 2026", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 349091-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-349091-2026/request-for-tenders-for-the-provision-of-the-hire-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.