{"title":"Data services market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/723-data-services","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"723","label":"Data services"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 32 supply contracts for data services through award notices on TED; the 12 of them that state a value (37.5%) add up to €1.16 million, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 30 companies have won 57 public supply contracts for data services in Ireland, in 32 award notices from 11 public buyers.","36.8% 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 49.1% of all awards.","15.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":57,"awardNotices":32,"winningCompanies":30,"publicBuyers":11,"awardsWithValue":29,"awardedValueEur":10419786,"localAwards":21,"foreignAwards":36,"top5Share":0.49122807017543857,"singleBidAwards":7,"awardsWithKnownBids":45,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":12,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":112532},{"year":2025,"awards":32,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":1158996},{"year":2026,"awards":13,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":10,"awardedValueEur":9148258}]},"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, \"Data services market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/723-data-services, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}