Public contract award · TED 460080-2024
- 2 suppliers share it
Tender for the Supply and Maintenance of Optical Fibre Earth Sensing Suite to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) Geofib, in two (2) lots
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies awarded this contract to Febus Optics and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) on 31 July 2024, using an open procedure, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €1,250,000. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 120 months, to Jul 2034.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedFebus OpticsNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedAlcatel Submarine Networks (ASN)Not 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 85% of contract awards, and number 2 of 9 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 10 years, to Jul 2034.
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
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Geological and geophysical instruments
- Estimated value
- €1,250,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 3441819eTenders' 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
- 460080-2024 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
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- TED contract award notice 460080-2024 (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 3441819. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Tender for the Supply and Maintenance of Optical Fibre Earth Sensing Suite to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) Geofib, in two (2) lots", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 460080-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-460080-2024/tender-for-the-supply-and-maintenance-of-optical-fibre. 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.