Hayes announces €8 million Public Service ICT consumables contract that could lead to 25 new highly skilled jobs.
15-3-12
Picture shows from left Patrick Kickham, Director, Datapac Ltd and Brian Hayes T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) at the announcement of the awarding of an €8 million public service ICT consumables contract to Datapac Limited with the expected creation of up to 25 new highly skilled jobs.Pic:Maxwells-no fee
Brian Hayes T.D., Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) today announced the awarding of an €8 million public service ICT consumables contract to Datapac Limited with the expected creation of up to 25 new highly skilled jobs.
Speaking about the awarding of the contract Minister Hayes said: “I am pleased to announce that following an EU tendering process the National Procurement Service (NPS) of the OPW has awarded a contract to Datapac Ltd. for the supply of ICT consumables to the public sector. The contract is valued at €8 million and is available to a wide range of public sector clients including: central Government Departments and their Agencies, an Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces, all Local Authorities, the Health Service Executive, all Vocational Education Committees, as well as primary and post primary sectors and the third-level education sector”.
The Minister continued: “Datapac Ltd. is a wholly Irish owned organisation, whose head-office is in Enniscorthy in County Wexford, was established in 1982 and is one of the largest indigenous companies in the IT sector in Ireland. Datapac operates through a purpose-built distribution centre adjacent to Dublin’s M50, where in excess of 4,000 electronic office supply products are stored ready for next day delivery. Datapac currently employ 150 highly skilled staff between
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"At Barretstown, we rebuild the lives of children, and their families, affected by childhood cancer and other serious illnesses. We serve 5,000 campers a year and have 1200 volunteers each year. Communication is crucially important and Datapac has helped us to streamline, improve and ensure efficiency." -
"Datapac has provided us with a fantastic product and world-class levels of service and support. Whenever people ask me about our experience with Datapac I’m always ready to sing their praises and I would happily recommend their services to any organisation." -
"For many years Datapac has been our sole supplier for the maintenance of Personal Computers and Peripherals in Ireland. Through their Service Centres in Wexford and Dublin, Datapac provides excellent support to our businesses throughout the country and consistently meets the SLA targets which we have set. The skill, expertise and experience of their engineers and other technical support personnel are of the highest standard." -
“The value of dealing with an HP Gold partner in this process can’t be underestimated. Datapac provide us with a local touch and can cover the full range of our IT requirements, but when there is a specific technical requirement like this, they can bring the specialist technical resources of HP to the table. HP and Datapac had a thorough discussion with us around our requirement - and had really done their homework - and then were able to provide us with a very highly specified test platform for us to prove the application on before we committed to purchase.” -
Datapac understands our needs and requirements and has the expertise and experience to follow through on all our requests. Our constant need to reduce costs has been assisted by Datapac's ability to suggest alternative solutions and methods whilst improving both efficiency and productivity. Our partnership with Datapac is akin to having an IT department on site that we simply could not provide ourselves.