Public contract award · TED 397899-2026
CL3028DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Schoolbooks incl eBooks to Community and Comprehensive, and Voluntary Secondary Schools (excluding ETB schools) within the Free Education Scheme
Pobalscoil Inbhear Sceine awarded this contract to Castle Book and Card Centre Limited on 10 June 2026, using a mini-competition between suppliers already on a framework. The notice publishes a value of €55,472.
- Award decision
- Award published
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierCastle Book and Card Centre LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 21% of contract awards.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Direct Invite – Mini-CompetitionChosen from suppliers already approved on a framework agreement.
- Competition type
- DPS TenderBought through a dynamic purchasing system, which suppliers can join at any time.
- Subject (CPV)
- Printed matter and related products
- Estimated value
- €80,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Kenmare
- eTenders tender ID
- 7998374eTenders' 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
- 397899-2026 (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 397899-2026 (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 7998374. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"CL3028DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Schoolbooks incl eBooks to Community and Comprehensive, and Voluntary Secondary Schools (excluding ETB schools) within the Free Education Scheme", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 397899-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-397899-2026/cl3028dps-dynamic-purchasing-system-for-the-supply-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.