Public contract award · TED 741531-2025
- Framework agreement
- 10 suppliers share it
Multi operator framework agreement for the provision of Software Licences to the Irish Prison Service
Irish Prison Service awarded this contract to Micromail Limited, Ekco Security Limited, evcoms, Softcat PLC, Threatscape Limited, Conscia Ireland, Bechtle, eircom Limited (t/a eir evo)_18711, Servaplex Limited and Fastcom AS (trading as Enterprise Defence) on 7 November 2025, using an open procedure, and 10 bids were received. The notice publishes €30,000,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 10 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 decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedMicromail LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedEkco Security LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedevcomsNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedSoftcat PLCMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedThreatscape LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedConscia IrelandNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedBechtleNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedeircom Limited (t/a eir evo)_18711Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedServaplex LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedFastcom AS (trading as Enterprise Defence)Not matched to a company record
The notice names 10 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
- 10Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Software package and information systems
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €30,000,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Longford
- eTenders tender ID
- 6084234eTenders' 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
- 741531-2025 (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 741531-2025 (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 6084234. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Multi operator framework agreement for the provision of Software Licences to the Irish Prison Service", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 741531-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-741531-2025/multi-operator-framework-agreement-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.