{"title":"Sand and clay market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/142-sand-and-clay","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"142","label":"Sand and clay"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 60 supply contracts for sand and clay through award notices on TED; the 2 of them that state a value (3.3%) add up to €153,362, a floor rather than the full contract value. Ireland imported €55 million of goods in the customs headings matched to sand and clay in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2517, 2508, 2505 and 2507; all buyers, not only public ones), up 0.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 54 companies have won 90 public supply contracts for sand and clay in Ireland, in 16 award notices from 7 public buyers.","98.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Ireland; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.","The five companies that win most often hold 26.7% of all awards.","3.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":90,"awardNotices":16,"winningCompanies":54,"publicBuyers":7,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":8607550,"localAwards":89,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.26666666666666666,"singleBidAwards":3,"awardsWithKnownBids":85,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":4,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":576245},{"year":2025,"awards":60,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":153362},{"year":2026,"awards":26,"awardNotices":7,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":7877943}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2517","label":"Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heat-treated"},{"hs4":"2508","label":"Clays, andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined"},{"hs4":"2505","label":"Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured (excl. gold- and platinum-bearing sands, zircon, rutile and ilmenite sands, monazite sands, and tar or asphalt sands)"},{"hs4":"2507","label":"Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":54579657},{"year":2024,"valueEur":61074608},{"year":2025,"valueEur":55024773}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Ireland — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €50.3 billion in 2025, 8.3% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":50281000000,"percentOfGdp":8.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":37.5,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Sand and clay market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/142-sand-and-clay, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}