Survey & Mapping Government Tenders in Ireland

Accuracy specifications, control and the deliverables a survey contract owes

A survey contract is defined by its accuracy statement, and everything else follows from it. The tender should state the required positional accuracy, the coordinate reference system and vertical datum, the ground sample distance for imagery, and the point density for laser scanning, because those parameters decide the equipment, the flying or occupation time and therefore the price. A bid quoted against an unstated accuracy is not comparable with anything, and buyers who leave it out receive a spread of prices that tells them nothing.

Control and verification are what separate a survey from a collection of measurements. Ground control points established and observed against a recognised network, independent check points not used in the adjustment, and a reported accuracy assessment against those checks are the evidence that the specification was met. For airborne and satellite work, weather windows, airspace permissions and in some jurisdictions restrictions on aerial imagery are genuine programme risks that a realistic bid acknowledges rather than assumes away.

Deliverables and rights need to be specified item by item. Point clouds, orthoimagery, digital terrain and surface models, vector features captured to a defined schema and the metadata describing all of it come in formats that determine whether the buyer can actually use them, and the licence determines whether it can publish or share them. Public buyers increasingly require full rights and open formats so the data can be reused across the organisation, and they specify the metadata standard, because a survey nobody can find or interpret in five years has been bought twice.

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 survey & mapping in Ireland?

GlobalGov holds 150 survey & mapping records from 64 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Department Of Housing Local Government And Heritage (15 records); Galway City Council (8 records); Kerry County Council (7 records); Louth County Council (7 records); Cork City Council (6 records); Cork County Council (5 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 32% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are survey & mapping contracts worth in Ireland?

54 of the 150 records publish a contract value. The median is $98,739 and the largest single published value is $6.4M. By size, 27 under $100k, 22 between $100k and $1M, 5 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 96 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to survey & mapping tenders in Ireland?

Across the 116 Ireland survey & mapping notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 22 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 29. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 5 (4.3%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are survey & mapping tenders published in Ireland?

Ireland published 15 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 36, spread across 46 separate months of activity since 20 October 2016. May is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 18 August 2026.

How does Ireland compare with other survey & mapping markets?

Among the 11 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable survey & mapping market, Ireland ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is United States (803 records against 150 here). Within Ireland itself, survey & mapping is the 30th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Ireland survey & mapping records on this page come from?

These 150 records are collected from 2 official sources: Ireland Etenders (142), TED (8). 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.

Open Survey & Mapping tenders in Ireland

Showing 1 of the 1 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Ireland market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

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