Buyer profile
How An Post buys
Based on 410 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 Post's 376 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 23% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 34 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
328 awards, €278.2M of disclosed value
48 awards, €45k of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
8.3
Average across 232 of 410 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.19
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 191 of 410 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 280 of 410 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 | 0.14 | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 10.0 | 0.00 | 2 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 8.3 | 0.09 | 8 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 8.3 | 0.15 | 27 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 10.6 | 0.28 | 14 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 6.1 | 0.22 | 18 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 9.9 | 0.25 | 20 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 8.6 | 0.14 | 17 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 7.5 | 0.19 | 27 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 6.7 | 0.18 | 32 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 14.2 | 0.09 | 28 |
| 2024 | 45.3% | 5.6 | 0.36 | 53 |
| 2025 | 59.1% | 5.5 | 0.27 | 22 |
| 2026 | 54.5% | 6.5 | 0.13 | 11 |
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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.