Cork City Council — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Cork City 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: 128 awards worth €105,626,248 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 Cork City 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 Cork City Council's real procurement may be understated here.
See how Cork City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work. | €41,165,633 | 20 | €148,168 |
| Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work. | €15,618,548 | 4 | €2,009,990 |
| Provision of services to the community. | €13,000,000 | 1 | €13,000,000 |
| Bridge. | €6,736,614 | 1 | €6,736,614 |
| Road markings. | €6,696,462 | 1 | €6,696,462 |
| Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services. | €5,834,438 | 10 | €32,405 |
| Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installation work. | €2,000,000 | 1 | €2,000,000 |
| Motor vehicles. | €1,722,602 | 2 | €861,301 |
| Road traffic-control equipment. | €1,721,759 | 1 | €1,721,759 |
| Road construction works. | €1,648,123 | 1 | €1,648,123 |
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 68 categories by value, accounting for 91% of €105,626,248 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Bespoke | €68,768,335 | 41 |
| Simplified | €22,127,913 | 81 |
| Framework | €14,500,000 | 4 |
| FW - Mini-Comp | €230,000 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| OJEU | €74,009,417 | 17 |
| Direct Invite | €22,357,913 | 83 |
| National | €9,258,918 | 28 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Works | €57,811,971 | 14 |
| Services | €14,433,257 | 14 |
| Work Related Services | €6,132,840 | 4 |
| Supplies | €4,890,267 | 13 |
| Not recorded | €22,357,913 | 83 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 8 of 45 contracts with a recorded bid count (18%) 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 2026-10-20.