Carlow County Council — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Carlow County Council in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by category, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 43 awards worth €816,214,739 combined.
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.
This total covers only awards recorded specifically against Carlow County Council — nationally, just 21% of award rows in the last 12 months carry a single council attribution at all (national frameworks and non-council awarding bodies account for the rest), so Carlow County Council's real procurement may be understated here.
See how Carlow County Council's own contract sizes compare with every other public award nationally: award size spread →
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering services. | €800,052,320 | 3 | €400,000,000 |
| Construction work. | €6,851,117 | 13 | €191,001 |
| Road markings. | €2,496,064 | 1 | €2,496,064 |
| Generators. | €1,853,660 | 2 | €926,830 |
| Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads. | €915,264 | 1 | €915,264 |
| Bitumen and asphalt. | €733,933 | 1 | €733,933 |
| Firefighting vehicles. | €723,000 | 3 | €248,000 |
| Refuse skips. | €500,000 | 1 | €500,000 |
| Tankers. | €387,500 | 1 | €387,500 |
| Refuse and waste related services. | €250,000 | 1 | €250,000 |
A hollow bar marks a category built from 2 or fewer tenders — its total can be almost entirely one large framework agreement, not a genuine spending pattern across many contracts.
Top 10 of 25 categories by value, accounting for 100% of €816,214,739 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Framework | €802,181,650 | 6 |
| Bespoke | €13,522,650 | 31 |
| FW - Mini-Comp | €298,150 | 2 |
| Simplified | €212,288 | 4 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| OJEU | €805,568,535 | 8 |
| National | €10,135,765 | 29 |
| Direct Invite | €510,439 | 6 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Work Related Services | €800,642,070 | 6 |
| Works | €11,044,200 | 16 |
| Supplies | €3,075,706 | 7 |
| Services | €942,323 | 8 |
| Not recorded | €510,439 | 6 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 8 of 36 contracts with a recorded bid count (22%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here. Nationally, over the same trailing 12 months, 21% of contracts had only one bid.
Figures published by Office of Government Procurement (eTenders contract award notices). Accessed 2026-10-19.