Public contract award · TED 599863-2024
Processing of Garda vetting applications on behalf of Early Learning and School Age Childcare service providers and DCEDIY
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth awarded this contract to Ecce & Play Early Childhood Ireland on 4 October 2024, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €2,000,000. The published term is 36 months, to Oct 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
- SupplierEcce & Play Early Childhood IrelandMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 89% of contract awards, and number 56 of 129 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 3 years, to Oct 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
- 2Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Telecommunications services
- Estimated value
- €2,000,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 2582204eTenders' 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
- 599863-2024 (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 599863-2024 (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 2582204. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Processing of Garda vetting applications on behalf of Early Learning and School Age Childcare service providers and DCEDIY", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 599863-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-599863-2024/processing-of-garda-vetting-applications-on-behalf-of-early. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
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