Public contract award · TED 803113-2025
- Framework agreement
- 26 suppliers share it
TR3249F - RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Bus Hire Services for Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board ( LCETB)
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Lahinch Bus Hire Limited, Fintan Meaney Limited, J.J. Kavanagh & Sons Limited, Shane and Edward Brigdale, t/a Clarecastle Coaches, Glynns Coach Hire (Ennis) Limited, Jamesy's Bus Hire, Noel O Shea, C&C Executive Travel Limited, C & J Travel Limited, Edward O' Malley Coaches Limited, HM Travel & Logistics Limited, Hynan Travel Limited, Castletroy Coaches Limited, Kelly Travel, D S Roughan LTD, Derg Bus Hire Limited, Local Link Limerick Clare, Griffins Coaches Limited, Richard Delaney Bus Hire, Patrick Kenneally, Catherine Madigan t/a Madigans Bushire, Mannings Coaches Limited, Patrick McElligott & Sons Limited, TCT Transport Limited, Mangan Bus Hire and Martins Coaches on 3 December 2025, using an open procedure, and 26 bids were received. The notice publishes €5,600,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 26 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 48 months, to Dec 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 namedLahinch Bus Hire LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedFintan Meaney LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedJ.J. Kavanagh & Sons LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedShane and Edward Brigdale, t/a Clarecastle CoachesNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedGlynns Coach Hire (Ennis) LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedJamesy's Bus HireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedNoel O SheaNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedC&C Executive Travel LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedC & J Travel LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedEdward O' Malley Coaches LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedHM Travel & Logistics LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedHynan Travel LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedCastletroy Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedKelly TravelNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedD S Roughan LTDNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedDerg Bus Hire LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedLocal Link Limerick ClareNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedGriffins Coaches LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedRichard Delaney Bus HireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedPatrick KenneallyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedCatherine Madigan t/a Madigans BushireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMannings Coaches LimitedMatched by exact name
- Supplier namedPatrick McElligott & Sons LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedTCT Transport LimitedMatched by company number
- Supplier namedMangan Bus HireNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMartins CoachesNot matched to a company record
The notice names 26 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 Dec 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
- 26Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Hire of buses and coaches with driver
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Estimated value
- €5,600,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Limerick
- eTenders tender ID
- 5420070eTenders' 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
- 803113-2025 (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 803113-2025 (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 5420070. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"TR3249F - RFT to establish a Multi Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Bus Hire Services for Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board ( LCETB)", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 803113-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-803113-2025/tr3249f-rft-to-establish-a-multi-supplier-framework. 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.