{"title":"Measuring instruments market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/383-measuring-instruments","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"383","label":"Measuring instruments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 52 supply contracts for measuring instruments through award notices on TED; the 43 of them that state a value (82.7%) add up to €28.6 million. Ireland imported €135 million of goods in the customs headings matched to measuring instruments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9030, 9017 and 9016; all buyers, not only public ones), down 1.1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 105 companies have won 221 public supply contracts for measuring instruments in Ireland, in 110 award notices from 26 public buyers.","62.4% 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 28.5% of all awards.","30% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":221,"awardNotices":110,"winningCompanies":105,"publicBuyers":26,"awardsWithValue":103,"awardedValueEur":156047630,"localAwards":138,"foreignAwards":83,"top5Share":0.2850678733031674,"singleBidAwards":30,"awardsWithKnownBids":100,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":109,"awardNotices":31,"awardsWithValue":23,"awardedValueEur":19301157},{"year":2025,"awards":52,"awardNotices":38,"awardsWithValue":43,"awardedValueEur":28601199},{"year":2026,"awards":57,"awardNotices":39,"awardsWithValue":37,"awardedValueEur":108145273}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9030","label":"Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities (excl. meters of heading 9028)"},{"hs4":"9017","label":"Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments, e.g. drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators"},{"hs4":"9016","label":"Balances of a sensitivity of 50 mg or better, with or without weights"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":136557375},{"year":2024,"valueEur":146231588},{"year":2025,"valueEur":134993677}]},"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, \"Measuring instruments market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/383-measuring-instruments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}