Public contract award · TED 830387-2025
Invitation to Negotiate for Public Service Contracts for the provision of Public Bus Services – Outer Dublin Metropolitan Areas (ODMA) North and South
National Transport Authority awarded this contract to Go-Ahead Transport Services (Dublin) Limited on 15 December 2025, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 4 bids were received. The notice publishes a value of €743,000,000. The published term is 60 months, to Dec 2030.
- 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
- SupplierGo-Ahead Transport Services (Dublin) LimitedMatched by company number
How big is it?
Only 3 of 23,951 contract awards are larger, and number 3 of 224 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 5 years, to Dec 2030.
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
- 4Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Road transport services
- Estimated value
- €465,000,000What the buyer expected the contract to be worth before tendering.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 2843049eTenders' 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
- 830387-2025 (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 830387-2025 (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 2843049. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"Invitation to Negotiate for Public Service Contracts for the provision of Public Bus Services – Outer Dublin Metropolitan Areas (ODMA) North and South", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 830387-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-830387-2025/invitation-to-negotiate-for-public-service-contracts-for. 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.