Irish Rail awards: 162 records, €3,143,632.34 in disclosed contract values
By William O'Meara · 16 Sep 2026
Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail has 162 awards recorded in TenderMatch's trailing 12-month buyer summary. Disclosed contract values total €3,143,632.34. Separately, framework ceilings total €37,585,185.21.
These are different measures. Contract values describe recorded awards, not verified payments. Framework ceilings describe potential procurement value, not actual spending. Adding them together would obscure that distinction.
Which suppliers appear most often?
Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant) leads the returned supplier ranking with 22 awards. Breffni Group and SAF Building and Civil Engineering Ltd each have 10. S. Duffy Plant Hire Ltd has 8.
These are award counts, not a ranking of supplier revenue. The summary does not disclose contract totals for these suppliers; missing totals should not be read as zero.
Recent awards cover panel relaying and DART+ West plant hire
Award records dated 11 September 2026 add detail to the buyer profile:
| Award | Winner | Recorded value |
|---|---|---|
| 9596-12 Panel Relaying Plant hire Contract 1 2026/27 | Breffni Group | €889,930 estimated value (framework ceiling) |
| 9596-41 TDU- Dart+ West Main Plant Hire Contract | S. Duffy Plant Hire Ltd | €391,680 estimated value (framework ceiling) |
Both records are classified as framework awards in the corpus. Their figures therefore cannot establish how much Irish Rail has paid either supplier.
The detailed records identify the award and lot titles, but refer readers to separate scope documents for the work descriptions. Neither supplies a bid count or award criteria in the returned data. That limits what can be reported about the competition and the basis for selecting the winners.
About the figures
This profile uses TenderMatch's deduplicated Irish Rail buyer summary for the trailing 12 months, alongside recent awards and the detailed records for the awards linked above. The recent-awards query covers 7 days and returns up to 30 records; it is a discovery sample, not a complete market census. The buyer totals describe awards captured in the corpus, not audited expenditure.