Public contract award · TED 427222-2024
Provision of courier service for the delivery of water samples from multiple coastal locations around Ireland to EPA Laboratories in Monaghan and Dublin (2024)
Environmental Protection Agency awarded this contract to First Direct Medical Couriers Limited on 17 July 2024, using an open procedure, and 1 bid was received. The notice publishes a value of €54,000. The published term is 12 months, to Jul 2025.
- 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
- SupplierFirst Direct Medical Couriers LimitedMatched by name and legal form
How big is it?
Larger than 21% of contract awards, and number 125 of 165 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 1 year, to Jul 2025.
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
- 1Only one bid was received.
- Subject (CPV)
- Post and courier services
- Estimated value
- €54,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Wexford
- eTenders tender ID
- 2685742eTenders' 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
- 427222-2024 (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 427222-2024 (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 2685742. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Provision of courier service for the delivery of water samples from multiple coastal locations around Ireland to EPA Laboratories in Monaghan and Dublin (2024)", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 427222-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-427222-2024/provision-of-courier-service-for-the-delivery-of-water. 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.