Public contract award · TED 733216-2025
- Framework agreement
- 4 suppliers share it
Provision of Personal Protection Equipment and Footwear
Dublin Bus / Bus Atha Cliath awarded this contract to James Boylan Safety Limited, Charles Hughes, Limited, Safetycare and Arco Limited on 5 November 2025, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 13 bids were received. The notice publishes €1,400,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 4 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 36 months, to Nov 2028.
- 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 namedJames Boylan Safety LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedCharles Hughes, LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedSafetycareNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedArco LimitedNot matched to a company record
The notice names 4 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 3 years, to Nov 2028.
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
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 13Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Safety visors
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €1,400,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 4210142eTenders' 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
- 733216-2025 (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 733216-2025 (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 4210142. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Provision of Personal Protection Equipment and Footwear", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 733216-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-733216-2025/provision-of-personal-protection-equipment-and-footwear. 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.