{"title":"Research and experimental development services market in Ireland","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ie/731-research-and-experimental-development-services","scope":"Ireland","category":{"cpvGroup":"731","label":"Research and experimental development services"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Ireland awarded 15 supply contracts for research and experimental development services through award notices on TED; the 14 of them that state a value (93.3%) add up to €2.03 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 25 companies have won 41 public supply contracts for research and experimental development services in Ireland, in 36 award notices from 9 public buyers.","24.4% 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 51.2% of all awards.","19.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":41,"awardNotices":36,"winningCompanies":25,"publicBuyers":9,"awardsWithValue":29,"awardedValueEur":4155346,"localAwards":10,"foreignAwards":31,"top5Share":0.5121951219512195,"singleBidAwards":5,"awardsWithKnownBids":26,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":2,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":13,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":901303},{"year":2025,"awards":15,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":14,"awardedValueEur":2033277},{"year":2026,"awards":11,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":1220766}]},"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, \"Research and experimental development services market in Ireland\", https://cresques.com/markets/ie/731-research-and-experimental-development-services, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}