Public contract award · TED 447040-2026
- 2 suppliers share it
CL3432DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Schoolbooks to the Education and Training Boards (ETBs)
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to O'Mahonys Booksellers Limited and Opening Minds Educational on 30 June 2026, using a mini-competition between suppliers already on a framework. The notice publishes a value of €825,000. It names 2 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 namedOpening Minds EducationalNot matched to a company record
The notice names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 80% of contract awards, and number 76 of 493 from this public body.
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
- €1,650,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 7317132eTenders' 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
- 447040-2026 (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 447040-2026 (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 7317132. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"CL3432DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Schoolbooks to the Education and Training Boards (ETBs)", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 447040-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-447040-2026/cl3432dps-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.