{"title":"Chemical and fertiliser minerals market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/143-chemical-and-fertiliser-minerals","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"143","label":"Chemical and fertiliser minerals"},"updated":"2026-11-11","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"Since November 2023, 34 companies have won 330 public supply contracts for chemical and fertiliser minerals in Ireland, in 1 award notices from 1 public buyers. Ireland imported €1.23 million of goods in the customs headings matched to chemical and fertiliser minerals in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2510, 2503, 2511 and 2528; all buyers, not only public ones), up 114.5% from 2023.","facts":["100% of these awards went to companies registered in Ireland.","The five companies that win most often hold 36.4% of all awards."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":330,"awardNotices":1,"winningCompanies":34,"publicBuyers":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0,"localAwards":330,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.36363636363636365,"singleBidAwards":0,"awardsWithKnownBids":0,"byYear":[{"year":2026,"awards":330,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2510","label":"Natural calcium phosphates and natural aluminium calcium phosphates, natural and phosphatic chalk"},{"hs4":"2503","label":"Sulphur of all kinds (excl. sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur)"},{"hs4":"2511","label":"Natural barium sulphate \"barytes\""},{"hs4":"2528","label":"Borates, natural, and concentrates thereof, whether or not calcined, and natural boric acids containing <= 85% of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight (excl. borates separated from natural brine)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":574972},{"year":2024,"valueEur":417311},{"year":2025,"valueEur":1233447}]},"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, \"Chemical and fertiliser minerals market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/143-chemical-and-fertiliser-minerals, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}