Public contract award · TED 349866-2026
Request for Tenders for the provision of research and policy support services to the Creative Ireland Programme
Department of Culture Communications Sport awarded this contract to Mco Projects Limited on 21 May 2026, using an open procedure, and 4 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €660,000. The published term is 24 months, to May 2028.
- 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
- SupplierMco Projects LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 77% of contract awards, and number 5 of 43 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 2 years, to May 2028.
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)
- Research and development services and related consultancy services
- Estimated value
- €536,585What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Killarney
- eTenders tender ID
- 2584364eTenders' 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
- 349866-2026 (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 349866-2026 (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 2584364. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Request for Tenders for the provision of research and policy support services to the Creative Ireland Programme", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 349866-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-349866-2026/request-for-tenders-for-the-provision-of-research-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.