Awarded council tenders — every local authority ranked
Figures as of 2025, published by Office of Government Procurement — eTenders contract award notices. Accessed 2026-10-12.
Colour shows the 12-month change in the value of awarded council tenders, published via eTenders for each local authority.
Before you use these figures
- Only years from 2023 shown: Recorded council award notices grew roughly a thousandfold between 2013 and 2024-2025 in this source. That is a reporting-compliance change (Circular 05/2023 made publishing award details over EUR25,000 mandatory), not a genuine rise in procurement activity, so earlier years are not comparable and are not shown.
- Most council tender notices never show a recorded award: Checked directly against the source: only around a quarter of city/county council tender notices in this file have a recorded award outcome (date and value). The rest are still open, were cancelled, or simply never had an award recorded. This total is a floor, not a complete account of council procurement activity.
- Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
- A council can tender on behalf of its neighbours: Councils run joint regional frameworks, where one council is the contracting authority for several others. The source names the client councils in its own 'Name of Client Contracting Authority' field, and the whole value is published against the lead council. Measured directly for the years shown here: 27% of all council awarded value sits on a contract led for other named councils. The largest single example is Sligo County Council's EUR 375m regional design-and-build framework, run for Donegal, Galway City, Galway County, Leitrim, Mayo and Roscommon as well as Sligo — which is most of Sligo's 2024 figure. There is no published basis for splitting such a contract between the councils that use it, so it is left whole against the lead council rather than divided on a guess. Read a large one-off total as 'awarded through this council', not 'spent in this county'.
- Notices re-published under a second reference are counted once: The source sometimes publishes one competition more than once, under a different Tender ID each time, with the full awarded value on every copy. Where the file itself shows two records are the same competition — one names the other outright as its parent, or they share a contracting authority, contract name, notice date and value — only one is counted here. 36 of 28,591 awarded notices are excluded this way. Before this was found, one council's 2024 total read 69 times its own neighbouring years.
- Winning bid only — no data on who competed: eTenders names the winning supplier and gives an aggregate count of bids received, but never identifies a losing bidder anywhere in the published data. This figure cannot and does not show who else pitched for a contract.
- New contracts and renewals are not distinguished: This source has no field marking a contract as new versus a renewal or extension of an existing one. That distinction is not shown.
- eTenders re-use terms: Source: Office of Government Procurement, eTenders contract award notices, re-used under CC-BY 4.0. Attribution required.
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Awarded council tenders, every local authority ranked Caveats: Only years from 2023 shown; Most council tender notices never show a recorded award; Framework agreements can dominate a year's total; A council can tender on behalf of its neighbours; Notices re-published under a second reference are counted once; Winning bid only — no data on who competed; New contracts and renewals are not distinguished; eTenders re-use terms StatsMapped last confirmed these figures unchanged on 11 Oct 2026. Source: Office of Government Procurement — eTenders contract award notices https://statsmapped.com/ireland/rankings/etenders
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