Public contract award · TED 460341-2025
GALW/CSO1532/2025 Service concession contract for the provision of catering services for University of Galway on a concession basis.
University of Galway (ID 1400) awarded this contract to Sodexo Ireland Limited on 15 July 2025, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €28,000,000. The published term is 84 months, to Jul 2032.
- 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
- SupplierSodexo Ireland LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Only 218 of 23,951 contract awards are larger, and number 2 of 141 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 7 years, to Jul 2032.
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
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
- Estimated value
- €28,000,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Galway
- eTenders tender ID
- 5134845eTenders' 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
- 460341-2025 (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 460341-2025 (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 5134845. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"GALW/CSO1532/2025 Service concession contract for the provision of catering services for University of Galway on a concession basis.", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 460341-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-460341-2025/galw-cso1532-2025-service-concession-contract-for-the. 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.