Public contract award · TED 646720-2024
Provision of a Facial Recognition Solution
Department of Foreign Affairs/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha awarded this contract to Thales Dis France Sas on 24 October 2024, using an open procedure, and 6 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €2,501,000. The published term is 96 months, to Oct 2032.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierThales Dis France SasNot matched to a company record
How big is it?
Larger than 90% of contract awards, and number 2 of 41 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 8 years, to Oct 2032.
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
- 6Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Software-related services
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 3305107eTenders' 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
- 646720-2024 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
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- TED contract award notice 646720-2024 (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 3305107. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Provision of a Facial Recognition Solution", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 646720-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-646720-2024/provision-of-a-facial-recognition-solution. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
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