Public contract award · TED 71283-2026
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The delivery, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of five Dual Polarisation Weather Radars Systems
Met Eireann awarded this contract to Vaisala Oyj on 30 January 2026, using an open procedure, and 2 bids were received. The notice publishes €816,438,300, 100 times its own estimate of €8,164,383. Declared shows it as published but leaves it out of totals and rankings: check it against the official notice. The published term is 120 months, to Jan 2036.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierVaisala OyjNot matched to a company record
How long does it run?
A published term of 10 years, to Jan 2036.
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)
- Radar
- Estimated value
- €8,164,383What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin 9
- eTenders tender ID
- 6676992eTenders' 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
- 71283-2026 (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 71283-2026 (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 6676992. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The delivery, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of five Dual Polarisation Weather Radars Systems", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 71283-2026. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-71283-2026/the-delivery-installation-commissioning-and-maintenance-of. 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.