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How an-coimisiun-pleanala buys

Based on 30 recorded award notices in the OGP data (2024–2026). Procedure type is recorded for every award; bid-count and SME figures are shown only where the underlying counts are published. All figures are recorded facts from the award data.

Competitive-procedure mix

Share of an-coimisiun-pleanala's 30 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 70% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market76.7% of awards · 83.5% of value

23 awards, €13.3M of disclosed value

Limited-competition23.3% of awards · 16.5% of value

7 awards, €2.6M of disclosed value

Single-tender0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.0

Average across 19 of 30 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.21

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 9 of 30 awards with published SME bid counts.

The SME-access ratio is a pooled rate (total SME awards divided by total SME bids), not an average of per-award rates. A higher ratio means a larger share of SME bids resulted in an award.

Year-by-year trend

Computed across the 26 of 30 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2014100.0%1.02
2016100.0%13.02
2018100.0%8.01
2019100.0%4.30.184
2020100.0%8.00.092
2021100.0%3.52
2022100.0%3.01
2023100.0%3.50.334
202514.3%1.01.007
20260.0%1

By sector

IT Services66.7% open-market · 15 awards
Professional Services80.0% open-market · 10 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 1 award
Facilities100.0% open-market · 1 award
Construction100.0% open-market · 1 award

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Data & licence

Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Computed deterministically from the Office of Government Procurement contract-award records published ondata.gov.ie. Open-market routes are the Open, Restricted, Simplified, Competitive Dialogue and Competitive-with-Negotiation procedures; limited-competition routes are mini-competitions and quick quotes; single-tender is the negotiated procedure without prior publication. Generated 2026-08-02.