Irish Rail awards: Dixon Bros. leads supplier count across 195 records
By William O'Meara · 08 Oct 2026
TenderMatch's Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail award records show 195 awards in the past 12 months. The disclosed contract value total is €2,674,334.74. Separately, the estimated value (framework ceiling) total is €41,694,497.21.
These figures measure different things. Framework ceilings are not expenditure, and disclosed contract values do not establish how much has actually been paid. The figures should not be added together and described as Irish Rail's spending.
Who appears most often in the award records?
Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant) leads the returned supplier ranking by award count.
| Supplier | Awards in the past 12 months |
|---|---|
| Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant) | 33 |
| Breffni Group | 16 |
| Oliver Dixon Hedgecutting and Plant Hire Ltd | 13 |
| CWS Communications LTD | 11 |
| SAF Building and Civil Engineering Ltd | 10 |
| S. Duffy Plant Hire Ltd | 10 |
This is a ranking by recorded awards, not by money received. The buyer summary returns no disclosed contract total for these suppliers; that does not mean their awards had no value.
Recent awards cover plant hire, spoil removal and labour
The recent notices give a more specific picture of the work behind the buyer's totals:
- Maintenance plant: Oliver Dixon Hedgecutting and Plant Hire Ltd's award for “9596-45 Div. 6 Maintenance Plant Tender 2026-27” is dated 07 October 2026 and carries €773,648 estimated value (framework ceiling).
- Inchicore spoil removal: Carra Plant Hire Ltd's award for “9596-50 Inchicore railway works spoil removal Q4 2026” is dated 07 October 2026 and carries €268,000 estimated value (framework ceiling).
- Labour hire: CWS Communications LTD's award for “7946-381 Div. 12 - Labour Hire” is dated 07 October 2026 and carries €177,440 estimated value (framework ceiling).
- RRV tamping: Oliver Dixon Hedgecutting and Plant Hire Ltd's award for “9596-28 Div. 3 RRV Tamping contract” is dated 06 October 2026: value not disclosed.
What the figures cover
The buyer totals and supplier counts come from TenderMatch's deduplicated award summary for the past 12 months. The recent examples come from its awards query covering the past 7 days, limited to 30 results across buyers. They are selected examples, not a complete list of Irish Rail awards.
The profile describes the awards captured in TenderMatch's corpus. It is not an audited expenditure statement. Undisclosed values remain unknown, and framework ceilings remain separate from disclosed contract values.