{"title":"Printed matter and related products market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/220-printed-matter-and-related-products","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"220","label":"Printed matter and related products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 132 supply contracts for printed matter and related products through award notices on TED; the 123 of them that state a value (93.2%) add up to €22.3 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 115 companies have won 437 public supply contracts for printed matter and related products in Ireland, in 400 award notices from 248 public buyers.","97.7% 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 34.6% of all awards.","13% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":437,"awardNotices":400,"winningCompanies":115,"publicBuyers":248,"awardsWithValue":395,"awardedValueEur":81948919,"localAwards":427,"foreignAwards":10,"top5Share":0.34553775743707094,"singleBidAwards":25,"awardsWithKnownBids":193,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":2,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":360186},{"year":2024,"awards":31,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":14,"awardedValueEur":7280763},{"year":2025,"awards":132,"awardNotices":127,"awardsWithValue":123,"awardedValueEur":22289927},{"year":2026,"awards":272,"awardNotices":249,"awardsWithValue":256,"awardedValueEur":52018043}]},"imports":null,"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, \"Printed matter and related products market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/220-printed-matter-and-related-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}