Public contract award · TED 400977-2026
- 4 suppliers share it
Schoolbooks - Stage 2 - Invite to Tender for the Supply of Schoolbooks to Louth Meath Education and Training Board
Louth Meath Education Training Board awarded this contract to O'Mahonys Booksellers Limited, Chapter and Verse Books Limited, John Byrne Books Limited and Business Services and Supplies_170194 on 11 June 2026, using a mini-competition between suppliers already on a framework. The notice publishes a value of €5,571,000. It names 4 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published.
- 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
- Supplier namedO'Mahonys Booksellers LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedChapter and Verse Books LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedJohn Byrne Books LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedBusiness Services and Supplies_170194Not 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 95% 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
- €5,571,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Louth Meath Education Training Board
- eTenders tender ID
- 7448729eTenders' 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
- 400977-2026 (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 400977-2026 (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 7448729. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Schoolbooks - Stage 2 - Invite to Tender for the Supply of Schoolbooks to Louth Meath Education and Training Board", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 400977-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-400977-2026/schoolbooks-stage-2-invite-to-tender-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.