Public contract award · TED 776293-2023
- 9 suppliers share it
The Provision of Bus Transport Services for Donegal ETB Schools
Donegal Education and Training Board awarded this contract to Marley Coach Hire Limited, Cronan Mc Fadden, Holmes Coaches Limited, Travelmaster Bus and Coach, Michael Friel, Kevin Byrne Coaches, Ayton Coaches Limited, Boyce Coach Travel Limited and Charles McNamee Coach hire on 21 December 2023, using an open procedure, and 22 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €620,000. It names 9 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 19 months, to Jul 2025.
- 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 namedMarley Coach Hire LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedCronan Mc FaddenNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedHolmes Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedTravelmaster Bus and CoachNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMichael FrielNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedKevin Byrne CoachesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedAyton Coaches LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedBoyce Coach Travel LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedCharles McNamee Coach hireNot matched to a company record
The notice names 9 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 76% of contract awards, and number 11 of 70 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 19 months, to Jul 2025.
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
- 22Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver
- Estimated value
- €620,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Letterkenny
- eTenders tender ID
- 2108744eTenders' 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
- 776293-2023 (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 776293-2023 (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 2108744. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The Provision of Bus Transport Services for Donegal ETB Schools", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 776293-2023. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-776293-2023/the-provision-of-bus-transport-services-for-donegal-etb. 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.