The HSE is to spend €176,000 on distributing free branded condoms and lubricants to prevent crisis pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
UK company Pasante Healthcare has won the tender for the National Condom Distribution Service operated by the HSE as part of its Sexual Health Crisis Pregnancy Programme.
The contract requires Pasante to deliver approximately 1.5 million packets of condoms to a HSE storage facility in Kilcohan, Co Waterford, each year as well as 700,000 sachets of lubrication.
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The customised products will be branded with the HSE logo as well as promoting the service’s website – sexualwellbeing.ie and the Gay Health Network’s site man2man.ie.
The contract is for a two-year period with the option to extend it for two additional periods of 12 months each.
When it advertised the contract last year, the HSE estimated the total value of the contract could be €500,000.
However, documents announcing the awarding of the contract to Pasante state the value of the contract is €176,000.
Pasante was the successful bidder out of three firms which tendered for the contract.
The National Condom Distribution Service was established by the HSE in October 2015 to improve sexual health and wellbeing.
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