Public contract award · TED 506112-2026
- Framework agreement
- 14 suppliers share it
Call for Tender for Multi Supplier Framework for the Provision of Bus Hire Services to Kerry Education and Training Board
Kerry Education and Training Board awarded this contract to Power Travel Limited, Houlihan Coaches Limited, donal o flaherty, Leacon Travel Limited, PCE Coaches Ltd TA O'Callaghan Coaches, Ryalls Travel, Lixnaw Bus Hire Limited, Kieran O Sullivan, O Sheas of Kerry, Joseph Daughton, Donovan's Coaches Limited, Martin McCarthy Limited, Thomas Cournane Coaches and Fol Travel Limited on 22 July 2026, using an open procedure, and 14 bids were received. The notice publishes €1,357,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 14 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Jul 2030.
- 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 namedPower Travel LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedHoulihan Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier nameddonal o flahertyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedLeacon Travel LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedPCE Coaches Ltd TA O'Callaghan CoachesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedRyalls TravelNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedLixnaw Bus Hire LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedKieran O SullivanNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedO Sheas of KerryNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedJoseph DaughtonNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDonovan's Coaches LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedMartin McCarthy LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedThomas Cournane CoachesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedFol Travel LimitedMatched by company number
The notice names 14 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How long does it run?
A published term of 4 years, to Jul 2030.
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
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 14Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Hire of buses and coaches with driver
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €1,300,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Tralee
- eTenders tender ID
- 7765261eTenders' 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
- 506112-2026 (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 506112-2026 (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 7765261. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Call for Tender for Multi Supplier Framework for the Provision of Bus Hire Services to Kerry Education and Training Board", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 506112-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-506112-2026/call-for-tender-for-multi-supplier-framework-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.