Why after-sales coverage decides these awards more often than price
Agricultural machinery is bought to be used a long way from a workshop, in a season that does not wait. That turns after-sales support into the dominant evaluation criterion in most of these competitions. Buyers ask for the location of dealer or service points relative to where the equipment will operate, guaranteed response times in the working season, the stock of fast-moving spares held in country, and a commitment to parts availability for a stated number of years. A machine that is cheaper and unsupported is scored as what it is: an asset that will stop and stay stopped.
Specification is written in performance terms rather than by model -- power output, implement compatibility and hitch category, working width, tank or hopper capacity, ground clearance, fuel consumption -- because the buyer wants competing manufacturers to be able to answer. Where the equipment is for smallholder or cooperative use, the specification frequently favours simplicity and field repairability over sophistication, and bidders who offer the most advanced machine can lose to one that a village mechanic can maintain.
Two practical requirements decide delivery. Operator and maintenance training, delivered in the working language with manuals to match, is normally a priced obligation rather than a courtesy, and acceptance can depend on it. And field demonstration is a real evaluation stage: buyers commonly require shortlisted machines to be demonstrated under local soil and crop conditions, which excludes bidders who cannot get a machine into the country for a trial. Delivery terms to rural destinations, including offloading at sites without handling equipment, belong in the price rather than in a later claim.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys agricultural equipment in Ireland?
GlobalGov holds 100 agricultural equipment records from 40 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage (14 records); Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (7 records); Education Procurement Service (EPS) (7 records); Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (6 records); Dublin City Council (5 records); Teagasc (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 44% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage | 14 | 14% |
| Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine | 7 | 7.0% |
| Education Procurement Service (EPS) | 7 | 7.0% |
| Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine | 6 | 6.0% |
| Dublin City Council | 5 | 5.0% |
| Teagasc | 5 | 5.0% |
What are agricultural equipment contracts worth in Ireland?
82 of the 100 records publish a contract value. The median is $343,440 and the largest single published value is $11.3M. By size, 8 under $100k, 50 between $100k and $1M, 23 between $1M and $10M, 1 above $10M. The remaining 18 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 8 | 9.8% |
| between $100k and $1M | 50 | 61% |
| between $1M and $10M | 23 | 28% |
| above $10M | 1 | 1.2% |
How long do bidders get to respond to agricultural equipment tenders in Ireland?
Across the 44 Ireland agricultural equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 36 days. A quarter of them allowed 32 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 40. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are agricultural equipment tenders published in Ireland?
Ireland published 14 notices in this category in the last twelve months. That is 36% fewer than the 22 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 64, spread across 46 separate months of activity since 29 December 2020. October is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Ireland compare with other agricultural equipment markets?
Among the 37 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable agricultural equipment market, Ireland ranks 29th by number of records. The largest is France (4,262 records against 100 here). Within Ireland itself, agricultural equipment is the 41st largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Ireland agricultural equipment records on this page come from?
These 100 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (100). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Agricultural Equipment tenders in Ireland
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 100 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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