Public contract award · TED 486611-2026
- 2 suppliers share it
Photography and Videography services at meetings and events related to Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, 2026
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála awarded this contract to Creative Technology (Audio Visual) Ireland Limited and Instant News Services on 14 July 2026, using an open procedure, and 12 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €311,160. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 7 months, to Feb 2027.
- 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
- Supplier namedCreative Technology (Audio Visual) Ireland LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedInstant News ServicesNot 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 62% of contract awards, and number 44 of 95 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 months, to Feb 2027.
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
- 12Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Photographic and ancillary services
- Estimated value
- €300,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 7838802eTenders' 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
- 486611-2026 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
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The official records this page is built from.
- TED contract award notice 486611-2026 (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 7838802. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Photography and Videography services at meetings and events related to Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, 2026", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 486611-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-486611-2026/photography-and-videography-services-at-meetings-and-events. 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.