Public contract award · TED 583539-2025
LA3255C - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning and Calibration of a Surface Analysis Instrument X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) for University College Dublin (UCD)
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Kratos Analytical Ltd. on 8 September 2025, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €896,800. The published term is 108 months, to Sept 2034.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierKratos Analytical Ltd.Not matched to a company record
How big is it?
Larger than 81% of contract awards, and number 69 of 493 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 9 years, to Sept 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
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- Estimated value
- €944,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 5464640eTenders' 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
- 583539-2025 (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 583539-2025 (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 5464640. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"LA3255C - RFT for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning and Calibration of a Surface Analysis Instrument X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) for University College Dublin (UCD)", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 583539-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-583539-2025/la3255c-rft-for-the-supply-delivery-installation. 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.