Abstract The aim of this paper is to establish new results on the error bounds for a class of vector equilibrium problems with partial order provided by a polyhedral cone generated by some matrix. We first propose some regularized gap functions of this problem using the concept of $$\mathcal {G}_{A}$$ GA -convexity of a vector-valued function. Then, we derive error bounds for vector equilibrium problems with partial order given by a polyhedral cone in terms of regularized gap functions under some suitable conditions. Finally, a real-world application to a vector network equilibrium problem is given to illustrate the derived theoretical results.