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How Bord Bia (Irish Food Board) buys

Based on 591 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 Bord Bia (Irish Food Board)'s 591 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 42% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market100.0% of awards · 100.0% of value

591 awards, €352.8M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

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

0 awards

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Open-Market Procedure Share100.0% of 591 awards
Average Bids Received4.2 bids per award (n=474)
SME-Access Ratio0.32 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.2

Average across 474 of 591 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.32

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 444 of 591 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

23%

109 of 474 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

628

Top supplier share: 15% across 113 distinct winners (framework-deduplicated).

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 479 of 591 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2013100.0%6.5-4
2014100.0%3.31.0010
2015100.0%1.30.9122
2016100.0%1.90.5623
2017100.0%3.60.3841
2018100.0%5.30.3855
2019100.0%4.40.3841
2020100.0%4.00.3275
2021100.0%4.30.3143
2022100.0%4.20.3038
2023100.0%4.10.3221
2024100.0%3.90.2742
2025100.0%5.20.2141
2026100.0%6.30.1923

By sector

Professional Services100.0% open-market · 472 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 70 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 21 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 14 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 2 awards

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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 2026-11-02.