Public contract award · TED 544102-2025
- Framework agreement
- 3 suppliers share it
LI3087F - Framework Agreement for the Supply of Public Library Books and Audio-Visual Materials for Public Libraries for the Local Government Management Agency
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to O'Mahonys Booksellers Limited, Irish Library Suppliers Limited and International Education Services on 20 August 2025, using an open procedure, and 4 bids were received. The notice publishes €40,000,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 3 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Aug 2029.
- 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 namedO'Mahonys Booksellers LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedIrish Library Suppliers LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedInternational Education ServicesNot matched to a company record
The notice names 3 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 Aug 2029.
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
- 4Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Printed books
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €38,000,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 5237774eTenders' 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
- 544102-2025 (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 544102-2025 (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 5237774. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"LI3087F - Framework Agreement for the Supply of Public Library Books and Audio-Visual Materials for Public Libraries for the Local Government Management Agency", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 544102-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-544102-2025/li3087f-framework-agreement-for-the-supply-of-public. 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.