Sizing, fabric testing and the logistics of clothing a workforce
Clothing contracts are decided on evidence about fabric and on the ability to distribute, and rarely on design. Buyers specify textiles by composition and by tested performance -- tensile and tear strength, colour fastness to washing and light, dimensional stability after repeated industrial laundering, pilling and abrasion resistance -- and require test reports from accredited laboratories against the garment offered. For protective clothing the requirement hardens into certification: flame resistance, high-visibility class, chemical or electric arc protection are conformity-assessed categories where an uncertified garment is simply inadmissible.
Fit is a procurement problem rather than a tailoring one. A public workforce spans a wide size range and increasingly requires garments cut for different body shapes, so tenders specify a size chart, a wearer trial with real staff, and an obligation to supply made-to-measure outside the standard range at a controlled price. Wearer trials often change the ranking: a garment that passes every laboratory test and is uncomfortable over a shift will be rejected by the people who have to wear it, and buyers know it.
The service wrapped around the garment is usually what differentiates bids. Individual ordering portals with entitlement rules by role, name-labelled packing to the wearer rather than to a site, replacement lead times, buffer stock held by the supplier, and a commitment to keep a pattern available for years so that a workforce does not end up in two shades of the same uniform are all priced obligations. Ethical supply chain evidence and end-of-life take-back are now commonly scored, and both require traceability further up the chain than a converter usually holds.
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 uniforms clothing in Ireland?
GlobalGov holds 85 uniforms clothing records from 48 distinct buying organisations in Ireland. The most frequent publishers are Health Service Executive (HSE) (7 records); The Office of Government Procurement (5 records); An Garda Síochána (3 records); An Garda Síochána_1192 (3 records); Dublin Bus / Bus Atha Cliath (3 records); Irish Defence Forces (3 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 28% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Health Service Executive (HSE) | 7 | 8.2% |
| The Office of Government Procurement | 5 | 5.9% |
| An Garda Síochána | 3 | 3.5% |
| An Garda Síochána_1192 | 3 | 3.5% |
| Dublin Bus / Bus Atha Cliath | 3 | 3.5% |
| Irish Defence Forces | 3 | 3.5% |
What are uniforms clothing contracts worth in Ireland?
61 of the 85 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.1M and the largest single published value is $86.4M. By size, 1 under $100k, 28 between $100k and $1M, 26 between $1M and $10M, 6 above $10M. The remaining 24 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 | 1 | 1.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 28 | 46% |
| between $1M and $10M | 26 | 43% |
| above $10M | 6 | 9.8% |
How long do bidders get to respond to uniforms clothing tenders in Ireland?
Across the 26 Ireland uniforms clothing notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 34 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 uniforms clothing tenders published in Ireland?
Ireland published 7 notices in this category in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 34, spread across 39 separate months of activity since 20 May 2020. May 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 uniforms clothing markets?
Among the 32 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable uniforms clothing market, Ireland ranks 29th by number of records. The largest is France (2,128 records against 85 here). Within Ireland itself, uniforms clothing is the 48th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Ireland uniforms clothing records on this page come from?
These 85 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (85). 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 Uniforms Clothing tenders in Ireland
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical uniforms clothing notice in Ireland is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Ireland – Textile bags – CFT for a Multi-Supplier Framework for the supply and delivery of Branded Merchandise to MTU
Ireland – Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories – RFT for the provision of Operational Footwear to the Irish Prison Service
Ireland – Miscellaneous outerwear – FSU077C RFT for the supply of Bespoke Tailored Made to Measure Uniforms to the Irish Defence Forces
Ireland-Dublin: Combat suits
Ireland-Dublin: Footwear
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