Irish Rail awards: 138 records, €3.23m in disclosed contract values and leading suppliers
By William O'Meara · 10 Sep 2026
TenderMatch's Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail award records show 138 deduplicated awards over the past 12 months. The disclosed contract values total €3,234,474.34. Separately, the framework ceilings total €34,284,927.21.
These are different measures. Disclosed contract values describe recorded awards, not payments made. Framework ceilings are estimated limits, not evidence of expenditure. Adding the figures together would not produce a spending total.
Which suppliers lead by award count?
Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant) leads the returned supplier ranking with 17 awards. Oliver Dixon Hedgecutting and Plant Hire Ltd follows with 9, then SAF Building and Civil Engineering Ltd with 8. Breffni Group and CWS Communications LTD each have 7.
This is a ranking by deduplicated award count, not by contract value. The summary supplies no disclosed contract total for these suppliers, so their award counts cannot establish a ranking by money awarded.
Recent awards cover plant and labour support
The recent records give a closer view of the work being awarded:
| Award | Supplier | Award date | Recorded value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7946-371 Points building labour support south | CWS Communications LTD | 04 September 2026 | €619,200.00 estimated value (framework ceiling) |
| 7946-375 TDU- Main Labour Hire North Contract 1 | CWS Communications LTD | 04 September 2026 | €474,702.50 estimated value (framework ceiling) |
| 9596-14 Panel Relaying Plant Contract 3 | Breffni Group | 07 September 2026 | €42,140.00 estimated value (framework ceiling) |
| 9596-15 Panel Relaying Plant Contract 4 | Breffni Group | 07 September 2026 | €38,640.00 estimated value (framework ceiling) |
The CWS Communications LTD supplier page and Breffni Group supplier page link these winners to their award records.
Scope of the figures
The profile uses TenderMatch's rolling 12-month buyer summary. The examples come from its recent-awards query covering the past 7 days, limited to 30 results across buyers. They illustrate the buyer's recent records rather than a complete inventory of its procurement. All example values retain the corpus's framework-ceiling classification. The figures do not establish Irish Rail's total expenditure.