{"title":"Workshop equipment market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/438-workshop-equipment","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"438","label":"Workshop equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-11","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 38 supply contracts for workshop equipment through award notices on TED; the 4 of them that state a value (10.5%) add up to €1.79 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Ireland imported €171 million of goods in the customs headings matched to workshop equipment in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8467 and 8465; all buyers, not only public ones), up 4.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 53 companies have won 110 public supply contracts for workshop equipment in Ireland, in 29 award notices from 18 public buyers.","94.5% 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 33.6% of all awards.","16.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":110,"awardNotices":29,"winningCompanies":53,"publicBuyers":18,"awardsWithValue":16,"awardedValueEur":15344135,"localAwards":104,"foreignAwards":6,"top5Share":0.33636363636363636,"singleBidAwards":16,"awardsWithKnownBids":96,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":3,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":8750000},{"year":2025,"awards":38,"awardNotices":9,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":1787792},{"year":2026,"awards":66,"awardNotices":16,"awardsWithValue":10,"awardedValueEur":4806343}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8467","label":"Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor"},{"hs4":"8465","label":"Machine tools, incl. machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling, for working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials (excl. machines for working in the hand)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":163394984},{"year":2024,"valueEur":158572365},{"year":2025,"valueEur":171046028}]},"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, \"Workshop equipment market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/438-workshop-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}