Public contract award · TED 738462-2025
- Framework agreement
- 4 suppliers share it
Single Party Framework Agreements for the Provision of Passenger Transport Services across various routes in 19 Lots for Ability West (new competition of 22 July 2025)
Ability West awarded this contract to Costello Bus Hire Limited, Ken Daly Bus Hire Limited, Gerry Fahy Bus Hire and Dermot Conneely on 7 November 2025, using an open procedure, and 7 bids were received. The notice publishes €9,095,000 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 48 months, to Nov 2029.
- 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 namedCostello Bus Hire LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedKen Daly Bus Hire LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedGerry Fahy Bus HireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDermot ConneelyNot 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 4 years, to Nov 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
- 7Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €9,095,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Galway
- eTenders tender ID
- 6157796eTenders' 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
- 738462-2025 (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 738462-2025 (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 6157796. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Single Party Framework Agreements for the Provision of Passenger Transport Services across various routes in 19 Lots for Ability West (new competition of 22 July 2025)", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 738462-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-738462-2025/single-party-framework-agreements-for-the-provision-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.