{"title":"Cable, wire and related products market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/443-cable-wire-and-related-products","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"443","label":"Cable, wire and related products"},"updated":"2026-11-11","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 25 supply contracts for cable, wire and related products through award notices on TED; the 14 of them that state a value (56%) add up to €6.73 million. Ireland imported €480 million of goods in the customs headings matched to cable, wire and related products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 7604, 7408, 7216, 7214, 7213 and 7 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 0.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 48 companies have won 68 public supply contracts for cable, wire and related products in Ireland, in 30 award notices from 22 public buyers.","92.6% 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 29.4% of all awards.","14% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":68,"awardNotices":30,"winningCompanies":48,"publicBuyers":22,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":29678392,"localAwards":63,"foreignAwards":5,"top5Share":0.29411764705882354,"singleBidAwards":7,"awardsWithKnownBids":50,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":2,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":11,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":639312},{"year":2025,"awards":25,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":14,"awardedValueEur":6726903},{"year":2026,"awards":30,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":22312177}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"7604","label":"Bars, rods and profiles, of aluminium, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7408","label":"Copper wire (excl. surgical sutures, stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like and other articles of heading 7413, electrically insulated wires and strings for musical instruments)"},{"hs4":"7216","label":"Angles, shapes and sections of iron or non-alloy steel, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7214","label":"Bars and rods, of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but incl. those twisted after rolling (excl. in irregularly wound coils)"},{"hs4":"7213","label":"Bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils"},{"hs4":"7217","label":"Wire of iron or non-alloy steel, in coils (excl. bars and rods)"},{"hs4":"7314","label":"Cloth, incl. endless bands, grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire, expanded metal of iron or steel (excl. woven products of metal fibres of a kind used for cladding, lining or similar purposes)"},{"hs4":"7312","label":"Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel (excl. electrically insulated products and twisted fencing wire and barbed wire)"},{"hs4":"7605","label":"Aluminium wire (excl. stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like and other articles of heading 7614, electrically insulated wires, and strings for musical instruments)"},{"hs4":"7413","label":"Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper (excl. electrically insulated products)"},{"hs4":"7614","label":"Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of aluminium (excl. such products electrically insulated)"},{"hs4":"7313","label":"Barbed wire of iron or steel"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":478245591},{"year":2024,"valueEur":492787038},{"year":2025,"valueEur":479767211}]},"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, \"Cable, wire and related products market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/443-cable-wire-and-related-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}