Public contract award · TED 784705-2024
Supply and Maintenance of Passport Production Equipment, Supply of Passports and Travel Documents
Department of Foreign Affairs/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha awarded this contract to Smurfit Kappa Security Concepts on 20 December 2024, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 5 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €108,900,000. The published term is 96 months, to Dec 2032.
- Award decision
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- SupplierSmurfit Kappa Security ConceptsNot matched to a company record
How big is it?
Only 82 of 24,510 contract awards are larger, and number 1 of 41 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 8 years, to Dec 2032.
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
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- BespokeA one-off contract tendered for this purchase.
- Bids received
- 5Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Printed matter and related products
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 2221072eTenders' 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
- 784705-2024 (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 784705-2024 (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 2221072. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Supply and Maintenance of Passport Production Equipment, Supply of Passports and Travel Documents", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 784705-2024. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-784705-2024/supply-and-maintenance-of-passport-production-equipment. 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.