Public contract award · TED 779392-2025
- 2 suppliers share it
The Supply, Installation, Licensing and Commissioning of Wireless Access Points compatible with existing systems within Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board
Kilkenny and Carlow ETB awarded this contract to Abacus Communications Limited and Sord Data Systems Limited on 24 November 2025, using an open procedure, and 3 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €220,000. It names 2 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
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedAbacus Communications LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedSord Data Systems LimitedMatched by exact name
The notice names 2 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How big is it?
Larger than 53% of contract awards, and number 26 of 66 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 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
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 3Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Network equipment
- Estimated value
- €221,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Kilkenny
- eTenders tender ID
- 6087397eTenders' 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
- 779392-2025 (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 779392-2025 (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 6087397. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"The Supply, Installation, Licensing and Commissioning of Wireless Access Points compatible with existing systems within Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 779392-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-779392-2025/the-supply-installation-licensing-and-commissioning-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.