Irish Rail procurement: 208 awards, with Dixon Bros leading by award count

TenderMatch's latest rolling 12-month summary for Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail records 208 awards. Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant) leads the listed suppliers by award count, with 38, followed by Breffni Group with 16 and CWS Communications LTD with 15.

These are counts of awards in TenderMatch's corpus, not a ranking by money received.

Contract values and framework ceilings

The buyer summary reports €2,248,799.74 in disclosed contract values and, separately, €31,016,360.61 in framework ceilings. The framework figure is an estimated upper limit recorded across the relevant awards, not evidence of expenditure. The disclosed contract total also measures award values, not payments made.

The figures should not be added together and described as Irish Rail spending. They cover different value categories, and the corpus summary is not a complete account of the buyer's expenditure.

Recent rail plant awards

The recent awards feed includes these entries dated 23 October 2026:

Award	Supplier	Recorded value
9596-57 Div. 1 Relay week 48 RRVs - contract 1	Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant)	€57,360.00 estimated value (framework ceiling)
9596-58 Div. 1 Relay week 48 RRVs - contract 2	Dixon Bros.(Agriculture and Plant)	€55,200.00 estimated value (framework ceiling)
9596-59 Div 1 Relay week 48 - Dozers	John Dixon Plant Hire Ltd	€14,400.00 estimated value (framework ceiling)

The Dixon Bros supplier page provides a route into the underlying award records. The buyer summary does not provide a disclosed contract total for Dixon Bros, Breffni Group or CWS Communications LTD; those missing totals must not be read as zero.

Source and scope

This profile uses TenderMatch's rolling 12-month buyer award summary and its latest seven-day awards feed. The buyer aggregation counts deduplicated awards and separates disclosed contract values from framework ceilings. Recent examples are selected records, not a complete list of the buyer's procurement.