{"title":"Garments market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/183-garments","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"183","label":"Garments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 21 supply contracts for garments through award notices on TED; the 5 of them that state a value (23.8%) add up to €17.4 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Ireland imported €849 million of goods in the customs headings matched to garments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 6109, 6115, 6206, 6205, 6108 and 6 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 39 companies have won 45 public supply contracts for garments in Ireland, in 16 award notices from 13 public buyers.","95.6% of these awards went to companies registered in Ireland; the most frequent foreign origin is Belgium.","The five companies that win most often hold 24.4% of all awards.","5.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":45,"awardNotices":16,"winningCompanies":39,"publicBuyers":13,"awardsWithValue":11,"awardedValueEur":20900929,"localAwards":43,"foreignAwards":2,"top5Share":0.24444444444444444,"singleBidAwards":2,"awardsWithKnownBids":36,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":1000000},{"year":2024,"awards":7,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":2243980},{"year":2025,"awards":21,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":17435949},{"year":2026,"awards":16,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":221000}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"6109","label":"T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted"},{"hs4":"6115","label":"Pantyhose, tights, stockings, socks and other hosiery, incl. graduated compression hosiery {e.g., stockings for varicose veins} and footwear without applied soles, knitted or crocheted (excl. for babies)"},{"hs4":"6206","label":"Women's or girls' blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses (excl. knitted or crocheted and vests)"},{"hs4":"6205","label":"Men's or boys' shirts (excl. knitted or crocheted, nightshirts, singlets and other vests)"},{"hs4":"6108","label":"Women's or girls' slips, petticoats, briefs, panties, nightdresses, pyjamas, négligés, bathrobes, dressing gowns, housecoats and similar articles, knitted or crocheted (excl. T-shirts, vests, brassieres, girdles, corsets and similar articles)"},{"hs4":"6212","label":"Brassieres, girdles, corsets, braces, suspenders, garters and similar articles and parts thereof, of all types of textile materials, whether or not elasticated, incl. knitted or crocheted (excl. belts and corselets made entirely of rubber)"},{"hs4":"6105","label":"Men's or boys' shirts, knitted or crocheted (excl. nightshirts, T-shirts, singlets and other vests)"},{"hs4":"6107","label":"Men's or boys' underpants, briefs, nightshirts, pyjamas, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles, knitted or crocheted (excl. vests and singlets)"},{"hs4":"6106","label":"Women's or girls' blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted (excl. T-shirts and vests)"},{"hs4":"6208","label":"Women's or girls' singlets and other vests, slips, petticoats, briefs, panties, nightdresses, pyjamas, négligés, bathrobes, dressing gowns, housecoats and similar articles (excl. knitted or crocheted, brassières, girdles, corsets and similar articles)"},{"hs4":"6207","label":"Men's or boys' singlets and other vests, underpants, briefs, nightshirts, pyjamas, bathrobes, dressing gowns and similar articles (excl. knitted or crocheted)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":824399921},{"year":2024,"valueEur":856590622},{"year":2025,"valueEur":849145847}]},"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, \"Garments market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/183-garments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}