Public contract award · TED 412581-2025
- Framework agreement
- 4 suppliers share it
2505 - Framework Agreement for Consumer and Business Brand Equity and Mystery Shopper Research
An Post awarded this contract to Ipsos B and A, Empathy Research Limited, Core and Customer Perceptions Limited on 26 June 2025, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 10 bids were received. The notice publishes €1,500,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 4 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 60 months, to Jun 2030.
- Award decision
- 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 namedIpsos B and ANot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedEmpathy Research LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedCoreNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedCustomer Perceptions LimitedMatched by company number
The notice names 4 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 5 years, to Jun 2030.
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
- 10Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Market research services
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Buyer town
- Dublin 1
- eTenders tender ID
- 4920114eTenders' 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
- 412581-2025 (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 412581-2025 (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 4920114. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"2505 - Framework Agreement for Consumer and Business Brand Equity and Mystery Shopper Research", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 412581-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-412581-2025/2505-framework-agreement-for-consumer-and-business-brand. 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.