Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 71 (Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services) in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by council, 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: 496 awards worth €4,719,727,742 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.
Top councils by value
| Council | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Carlow County Council | €800,444,390 | 6 |
| Kildare County Council | €27,893,189 | 11 |
| Fingal County Council | €22,473,110 | 6 |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council | €15,416,480 | 18 |
| Dublin City Council | €11,118,447 | 9 |
| Wicklow County Council | €10,212,125 | 3 |
| Limerick City And County Council | €9,043,529 | 19 |
| Cork City Council | €8,409,269 | 26 |
| South Dublin County Council | €5,494,000 | 3 |
| Waterford City And County Council | €5,487,635 | 12 |
Based on the 46% of Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Framework | €4,547,548,136 | 102 |
| Bespoke | €143,721,019 | 333 |
| DPS Tender | €22,826,759 | 13 |
| FW - Mini-Comp | €2,846,285 | 14 |
| Simplified | €2,785,542 | 34 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| OJEU | €4,666,048,550 | 230 |
| National | €25,220,606 | 205 |
| Direct Invite | €5,631,827 | 48 |
| Not recorded | €22,826,759 | 13 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Work Related Services | €3,230,449,703 | 206 |
| Services | €1,483,646,211 | 242 |
| Not recorded | €5,631,827 | 48 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 57 of 424 contracts with a recorded bid count (13%) 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.
Figures published by Office of Government Procurement (eTenders contract award notices). Accessed 2026-10-19.