{"title":"Geological and geophysical instruments market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/382-geological-and-geophysical-instruments","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"382","label":"Geological and geophysical instruments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 12 supply contracts for geological and geophysical instruments through award notices on TED; the 5 of them that state a value (41.7%) add up to €538,803, a floor rather than the full contract value. Ireland imported €22.1 million of goods in the customs headings matched to geological and geophysical instruments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9015; all buyers, not only public ones), down 31.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 29 companies have won 31 public supply contracts for geological and geophysical instruments in Ireland, in 14 award notices from 9 public buyers.","64.5% 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 22.6% of all awards.","6.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":31,"awardNotices":14,"winningCompanies":29,"publicBuyers":9,"awardsWithValue":11,"awardedValueEur":2408422,"localAwards":20,"foreignAwards":11,"top5Share":0.22580645161290322,"singleBidAwards":1,"awardsWithKnownBids":15,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":791316},{"year":2024,"awards":13,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":442851},{"year":2025,"awards":12,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":538803},{"year":2026,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":635452}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9015","label":"Surveying, incl. photogrammetrical surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances (excl. compasses)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":32448142},{"year":2024,"valueEur":26015810},{"year":2025,"valueEur":22113356}]},"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, \"Geological and geophysical instruments market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/382-geological-and-geophysical-instruments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}