Buyer profile
How An Garda Síochána buys
Based on 354 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 Garda Síochána's 353 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 80% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
342 awards, €1552.1M of disclosed value
11 awards, €2.4M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.1
Average across 250 of 354 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.30
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 245 of 354 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 262 of 354 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.
| Year | Open-market (count) | Avg bids | SME access | Dated awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 100.0% | 7.0 | — | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 6.0 | 0.30 | 9 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 6.5 | 0.24 | 25 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 5.4 | 0.19 | 11 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.22 | 8 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.1 | 0.34 | 35 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.37 | 20 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.2 | 0.34 | 11 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.25 | 23 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.34 | 31 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.32 | 14 |
| 2024 | 95.5% | 3.3 | 0.38 | 22 |
| 2025 | 79.0% | 3.8 | 0.27 | 38 |
| 2026 | 85.7% | 2.6 | 0.50 | 14 |
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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 2026-09-03.