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Who Won Irish Public Contracts - Week of 21-27 September 2026
Irish public bodies awarded EUR80.73m across 84 contracts between 21 and 27 September 2026. Full list of winning suppliers, buyers and contract values, sourced from the official TED procurement database.
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EUR80.73m awarded across 84 Irish public contracts this week
Top named win: Bretland Construction Ltd picked up a EUR9.45m construction contract from Kildare County Council for Construction of 39 Social and Affordable Housing units, and associated site development.
Irish public bodies published 84 contract awards with a combined disclosed value of EUR80.73m across the 79 notices that report a figure between 21 September and 27 September 2026.
Other and professional services accounted for 44 of 84 awards (52 percent) and EUR28.63m (35 percent) of the value.
Before the named-winner table: 6 awards 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:
- HSE Ref. 25532 - Health Service Executive (HSE) - EUR7.50m
- Provision of Vending Machine Services for Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin - Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin - EUR2.04m
- MSO016F C1-033, PROJ 10806 Mini-Competition for the Provision of Managed Print Services - The Office of Government Procurement - EUR2.00m
- HSE 29516 NIMIS 3PAR (NIMIS Storage Tier) Refresh - Health Service Executive (HSE) - EUR1.95m
- MI-CFT26-007 Request for Tenders for the provision and support of Microsoft Dynamics 365 - Marine Institute - EUR1.80m
Top 10 named winners this week (by value)
| # | Winner | Buyer | Sector | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bretland Construction Ltd | Kildare County Council | Construction | EUR9.45m |
| 2 | Irish Sea Contractors Ltd | Dublin Port Company | Other | EUR8.00m |
| 3 | Heckler and Koch GmbH | Department of Defence | Defence | EUR8.00m |
| 4 | McKeon Brothers Limited | Department of Education | Construction | EUR3.60m |
| 5 | eircom Limited (t/a eir business) | Dublin City Council | IT Services | EUR3.50m |
| 6 | Cytiva Ireland Ltd | Cork Education and Training Board | Healthcare | EUR3.00m |
| 7 | Turner and Townsend Ltd | University College Cork | Professional Services | EUR2.10m |
| 8 | Qualvecom | Dublin Bus / Bus Atha Cliath | Other | EUR2.00m |
| 9 | Universal Safety Associates | Health Service Executive (HSE) | Education | EUR1.53m |
| 10 | abk ARCHITECTS | IDA Ireland | Professional Services | EUR1.20m |
What stood out
- The 10 largest contracts take EUR49.20m, or 60.9 percent of the week’s EUR80.73m total. The remaining 74 awards share EUR31.54m between them.
- Other and professional services dominated: 44 of 84 awards (52 percent) and EUR28.63m (35 percent) of the disclosed value.
- 10 of the 84 notices were framework or multi-party framework awards, worth EUR18.13m in aggregate. These set ceilings rather than committed spend, so actual drawdowns will land below the headline figures.
- Week on week: total value down 96.9 percent (EUR2594.88m last week, EUR80.73m this week); awards down 41 (was 125, now 84).
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 | 6 |
| IDA Ireland | 5 |
| Health Service Executive (HSE) | 5 |
| Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUSMM) | 4 |
| Office of Public Works (OPW) | 4 |
| University College Cork | 2 |
| Louth County Council | 2 |
| Sligo County Council | 2 |
| Dublin Bus / Bus Atha Cliath | 2 |
| Tipperary County Council | 2 |
Sector breakdown
| Sector | Awards | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 23 | EUR18.48m |
| Professional Services | 21 | EUR10.15m |
| Construction | 12 | EUR16.58m |
| IT Services | 9 | EUR9.40m |
| Transport | 5 | EUR1.25m |
| Facilities | 4 | EUR567k |
| Healthcare | 4 | EUR12.22m |
| Environment | 3 | EUR980k |
| Defence | 2 | EUR9.58m |
| Education | 1 | EUR1.53m |
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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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