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Public contract award · TED 421498-2024

  • Framework agreement
  • 4 suppliers share it

CON1436-02/2023 Multi-Party Framework for the Supply, installation and commissioning electron microscopes including initial contract for a robust, ultra-high resolution FE-SEM with VEM capabilities

University of Galway (ID 1400) awarded this contract to Carl Zeiss Ltd, JEOL (UK) Ltd, TESCAN-UK Ltd. and FEI UK Limited on 15 July 2024, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes €4,000,000 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 48 months, to Jul 2028.

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Who awarded it, and to whom

Public bodyUniversity of Galway (ID 1400)Galway · 389 published awards

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 4 years, to Jul 2028.

Awarded2024-07-15Ends2028-07-15

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
FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
Bids received
5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
Subject (CPV)
Peripheral equipment
Framework agreement
YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
Buyer town
Galway
eTenders tender ID
3101202eTenders' 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
421498-2024 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.

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"CON1436-02/2023 Multi-Party Framework for the Supply, installation and commissioning electron microscopes including initial contract for a robust, ultra-high resolution FE-SEM with VEM capabilities", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 421498-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-421498-2024/con1436-02-2023-multi-party-framework-for-the-supply. 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.