Who Won Irish Public Contracts - Week of 12-18 October 2026

Browse the full Awards index for every recently awarded Irish public contract — updated daily.

One construction contract accounts for EUR1 in every EUR1.86 awarded this week

Top named win: Ke;llys Agricultural Machinery Ltd picked up a EUR600k transport contract from Irish Defence Forces for Supply of Two (2) High Mobility Tractors to the Irish Defence Forces. At 2.1 times the next-largest named award of the week, it accounts for roughly 0 percent of the EUR278.82m total.

Irish public bodies published 115 contract awards with a combined disclosed value of EUR278.82m across the 92 notices that report a figure between 12 October and 18 October 2026.

Other and construction accounted for 59 of 115 awards (51 percent) and EUR205.64m (74 percent) of the value.

Before the named-winner table: 43 awards larger than the 2th-ranked named win do not disclose a supplier in structured form and sit outside the table below. These are typically confidential framework awards or multi-tenderer frameworks:

• Standalone Contract Award Notice for Tender 3167264 - Clúid Housing Association - EUR150.00m
• 24/032 Advertising Media buying - Uisce Éireann - EUR24.96m
• The Provision of Contracted Training Services for Donegal ETB - Donegal Education and Training Board - EUR20.00m
• Integrated Facilities Management Services - IDA Ireland - EUR20.00m
• 24 Number Housing Development at Barnakyle, Patrickwell, Co, Limerick - Limerick City and County Council - EUR8.26m

Top 10 named winners this week (by value)

What stood out

• The 10 largest contracts take EUR245.57m, or 88.1 percent of the week’s EUR278.82m total. The remaining 105 awards share EUR33.25m between them.
• Other and construction dominated: 59 of 115 awards (51 percent) and EUR205.64m (74 percent) of the disclosed value.
• 14 of the 115 notices were framework or multi-party framework awards, worth EUR12.02m in aggregate. These set ceilings rather than committed spend, so actual drawdowns will land below the headline figures.
• Week on week: total value down 33.1 percent (EUR416.94m last week, EUR278.82m this week); awards up 10 (was 105, now 115).

All named awards published this week

Most active buyers this week

Contracting authorities ranked by number of award notices published. Counts include notices where a named winner was not published, so a buyer’s count here can exceed its appearances in the named-awards table above.

Sector breakdown

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About this data

All figures on this page come directly from the official TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) procurement database, the European Union’s legal publication record for public contracts. Winner names are extracted from the structured XML lodged with each award notice.

This post is generated automatically each Monday from award notices published in the previous seven days. No AI-generated narrative has been applied to the figures: counts, totals and rankings are computed deterministically from the source JSON.

Known limitations:

• TED publishes award notices with a typical lag of 1-3 days after eTenders.gov.ie. Very recent awards may not appear until next week’s roundup.
• Estimated values are reported as supplied by the contracting authority on the notice itself. They may differ from the final contract value actually paid.
• A share of award notices do not expose a named winner in structured form (typically confidential awards, multi-tenderer frameworks, or older notice formats). These are counted in the totals above but do not appear in the named-winner tables.
• Some notices publish a nominal estimated value of EUR1 as a placeholder when the real figure is confidential. These appear in the named-awards table as EUR1 and are not errors - they are how TED allows authorities to decline to disclose a value.
• Contract modifications (can-modif notices) and prior-information notices are excluded; only standard and social-services award notices are included.
• Always verify any figure against the linked TED notice before making a commercial or editorial decision based on it.

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