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Who Won Irish Public Contracts - Week of 20-26 April 2026
Irish public bodies awarded EUR236.68m across 86 contracts between 20 and 26 April 2026. Full list of winning suppliers, buyers and contract values, sourced from the official TED procurement database.
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One construction contract accounts for EUR1 in every EUR1.84 awarded this week
Top named win: Wills Bros picked up a EUR128.71m construction contract from Dublin Port Company for Works at Berth 52 and 53 Dublin Port. At 12.9 times the next-largest named award of the week, it accounts for roughly 54 percent of the EUR236.68m total.
Irish public bodies published 86 contract awards with a combined disclosed value of EUR236.68m across the 81 notices that report a figure between 20 April and 26 April 2026.
Professional Services and other accounted for 42 of 86 awards (49 percent) and EUR39.19m (17 percent) of the value.
Before the named-winner table: 1 award larger than the 10th-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:
- ET2601- RFT for the provision of Event Management and Related Services to the RSA - Road Safety Authority (RSA) - EUR8.50m
Top 10 named winners this week (by value)
| # | Winner | Buyer | Sector | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wills Bros | Dublin Port Company | Construction | EUR128.71m |
| 2 | PRIMO Coachworks Ltd | Irish Prison Service | Transport | EUR10.00m |
| 3 | Ballyfermot Pharmacy Limited | Irish Prison Service | Healthcare | EUR8.00m |
| 4 | Johnston Mooney and O’Brien | Irish Prison Service | Other | EUR6.90m |
| 5 | Ballyfermot Pharmacy Limited | Irish Prison Service | Healthcare | EUR6.40m |
| 6 | Linham Limited | Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) | Construction | EUR6.00m |
| 7 | Optimum Chauffeur Drive | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Trádála | Transport | EUR5.50m |
| 8 | TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES IRELAND LIMITED | An Garda Síochána | IT Services | EUR5.00m |
| 9 | Lennox Laboratory Supplies Ltd | State Laboratory | Construction | EUR4.00m |
| 10 | Sord Data Systems Ltd. | South Dublin County Council | IT Services | EUR3.00m |
What stood out
- The 10 largest contracts take EUR189.01m, or 79.9 percent of the week’s EUR236.68m total. The remaining 76 awards share EUR47.67m between them.
- Professional Services and other dominated: 42 of 86 awards (49 percent) and EUR39.19m (17 percent) of the disclosed value.
- 7 of the 86 notices were framework or multi-party framework awards, worth EUR8.42m in aggregate. These set ceilings rather than committed spend, so actual drawdowns will land below the headline figures.
- Week on week: total value up 21.9 percent (EUR194.20m last week, EUR236.68m this week); awards up 6 (was 80, now 86).
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.
| Authority | Awards this week |
|---|---|
| Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail | 12 |
| Rásaíocht Con Éireann | 6 |
| Office of Public Works (OPW) | 5 |
| Limerick City and County Council | 4 |
| Irish Prison Service | 4 |
| IDA Ireland | 3 |
| Bord na Móna PLC | 3 |
| South Dublin County Council | 2 |
| Mayo County Council | 2 |
| Dublin Port Company | 2 |
Sector breakdown
| Sector | Awards | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|
| Professional Services | 23 | EUR21.86m |
| Other | 19 | EUR17.33m |
| Transport | 12 | EUR18.90m |
| Construction | 8 | EUR139.18m |
| IT Services | 8 | EUR13.60m |
| Environment | 5 | EUR2.94m |
| Healthcare | 5 | EUR15.13m |
| Facilities | 4 | EUR5.00m |
| Defence | 1 | EUR2.62m |
| Education | 1 | EUR120k |
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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
EUR1and are not errors - they are how TED allows authorities to decline to disclose a value. - Contract modifications (
can-modifnotices) 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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