{"title":"Medical equipments market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/331-medical-equipments","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"331","label":"Medical equipments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 390 supply contracts for medical equipments through award notices on TED; the 107 of them that state a value (27.4%) add up to €66.2 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Ireland imported €3.89 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to medical equipments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9018, 9021, 9022, 9019, 3005 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 8.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 324 companies have won 974 public supply contracts for medical equipments in Ireland, in 262 award notices from 73 public buyers.","73.5% 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 14.9% of all awards.","8.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":974,"awardNotices":262,"winningCompanies":324,"publicBuyers":73,"awardsWithValue":293,"awardedValueEur":293807620,"localAwards":716,"foreignAwards":258,"top5Share":0.14887063655030802,"singleBidAwards":63,"awardsWithKnownBids":737,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":9,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":149,"awardNotices":65,"awardsWithValue":45,"awardedValueEur":54735137},{"year":2025,"awards":390,"awardNotices":98,"awardsWithValue":107,"awardedValueEur":66220071},{"year":2026,"awards":426,"awardNotices":93,"awardsWithValue":141,"awardedValueEur":172852412}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9018","label":"Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, incl. scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"9021","label":"Orthopaedic appliances, incl. crutches, surgical belts and trusses"},{"hs4":"9022","label":"Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, incl. radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like"},{"hs4":"9019","label":"Mechano-therapy appliances"},{"hs4":"3005","label":"Wadding, gauze, bandages and the like, e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices, impregnated or covered with pharmaceutical substances or put up for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes"},{"hs4":"9402","label":"Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture, e.g. operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with mechanical fittings and dentists' chairs"},{"hs4":"8713","label":"Carriages for disabled persons, whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled (excl. specially designed motor vehicles and bicycles)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":3586183112},{"year":2024,"valueEur":3887565510},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3894772668}]},"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.","General government spending on goods, services and investment for health in Ireland came to €16.9 billion in 2024 (Eurostat, COFOG). How much of it reaches suppliers through tenders depends on how the country organises the sector — for example whether statutory health insurance is classified in government."],"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":[{"text":"MedTech Europe estimates the European medical technology market at about €173 billion in 2025, at manufacturer prices, for the EU, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.","source":"MedTech Europe, The European Medical Technology in Figures (Data Hub)","url":"https://www.medtecheurope.org/datahub/market/","referenceYear":"2025"},{"text":"The European Commission states that public procurement accounts for 50% to 70% of the EU market for medical devices (Regulation (EU) 2025/1197, citing industry data).","source":"European Commission (Official Journal of the EU), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1197 imposing an IPI measure on medical devices originating in the PRC","url":"http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32025R1197","referenceYear":"c. 2023"},{"text":"According to the same regulation, procedures worth €5 million or more were about 4% of EU medical device procurement procedures on TED in 2017–2022 but about 59% of their value.","source":"European Commission (Official Journal of the EU), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1197 imposing an IPI measure on medical devices originating in the PRC","url":"http://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/32025R1197","referenceYear":"2017–2022"},{"text":"MedTech Europe counts more than 36,000 medical technology companies in Europe in 2025, about 90% of them SMEs.","source":"MedTech Europe, The European Medical Technology in Figures (Data Hub)","url":"https://www.medtecheurope.org/datahub/employment-companies/","referenceYear":"2025"},{"text":"Eurostat puts current healthcare expenditure in the EU at €1,720 billion in 2023, 10.0% of GDP; medical goods took 17.8% of it.","source":"Eurostat, Healthcare expenditure statistics - overview (Statistics Explained)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Healthcare_expenditure_statistics_-_overview","referenceYear":"2023 (EU provisional)"}],"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, \"Medical equipments market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/331-medical-equipments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}