Public contract award · TED 7790-2025
University of Galway - Lot 1 IBM QRadar
University of Galway awarded this contract to Ekco Security Limited on 8 January 2025, using a mini-competition between suppliers already on a framework. The notice publishes a value of €948,684.
- Award decision
- Award published
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierEkco Security LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Larger than 82% of contract awards, and number 5 of 29 from this public body.
A log scale: each step is ten times the last. “Typical” is the median contract award, €200K.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Direct Invite – Mini-CompetitionChosen from suppliers already approved on a framework agreement.
- Competition type
- DPS TenderBought through a dynamic purchasing system, which suppliers can join at any time.
- Subject (CPV)
- Software package and information systems
- Buyer town
- Galway
- eTenders tender ID
- 4343336eTenders' 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
- 7790-2025 (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 7790-2025 (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 4343336. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"University of Galway - Lot 1 IBM QRadar", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 7790-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-7790-2025/university-of-galway-lot-1-ibm-qradar. 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.