Buyer profile
How Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM ) buys
Based on 434 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 Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM )'s 434 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 28% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
429 awards, €37.0M of disclosed value
5 awards, €961k of disclosed value
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Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM )
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 98.9% of 434 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 2.9 bids per award (n=357) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.36 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
2.9
Average across 357 of 434 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.36
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 337 of 434 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
38.4%
137 of 357 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
231
Top supplier share: 6.6% across 82 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 365 of 434 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% | 2.0 | - | 8 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.33 | 15 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.28 | 20 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.24 | 27 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.31 | 35 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.41 | 37 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.2 | 0.48 | 23 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.36 | 34 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.34 | 54 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.6 | 0.42 | 20 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 2.6 | 0.39 | 25 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.56 | 30 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.36 | 15 |
| 2026 | 77.3% | 2.9 | 0.33 | 22 |
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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.