{"title":"Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/370-musical-instruments-sport-goods-games-toys-handicr","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"370","label":"Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 25 supply contracts for musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories through award notices on TED; the 1 of them that state a value (4%) add up to €27,720, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 29 companies have won 97 public supply contracts for musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories in Ireland, in 12 award notices from 7 public buyers.","95.9% 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 63.9% of all awards.","14.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":97,"awardNotices":12,"winningCompanies":29,"publicBuyers":7,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":3129220,"localAwards":93,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.6391752577319587,"singleBidAwards":11,"awardsWithKnownBids":78,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":4,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":41500},{"year":2025,"awards":25,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":27720},{"year":2026,"awards":68,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":3060000}]},"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, \"Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/370-musical-instruments-sport-goods-games-toys-handicr, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}