Public contract award · TED 636207-2025
- Framework agreement
- 2 suppliers share it
Multi-Party Framework Agreement for the provision of access to electronic research/bibliographic databases to the Institute of Public Administration
Institute of Public Administration awarded this contract to ProQuest LLC and EBSCO International Inc. on 29 September 2025, using an open procedure, and 3 bids were received. The notice publishes €400,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Sept 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 namedProQuest LLCNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedEBSCO International Inc.Not 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 long does it run?
A published term of 4 years, to Sept 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
- 3Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €400,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 5082488eTenders' 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
- 636207-2025 (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 636207-2025 (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 5082488. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Multi-Party Framework Agreement for the provision of access to electronic research/bibliographic databases to the Institute of Public Administration", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 636207-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-636207-2025/multi-party-framework-agreement-for-the-provision-of-access. 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.