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How Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Sea Fisheries Board ( BIM ) buys

Based on 417 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 417 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 25% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market99.5% of awards · 99.4% of value

415 awards, €34.7M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.5% of awards · 0.6% of value

2 awards, €208k of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.0

Average across 345 of 417 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.36

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 325 of 417 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 350 of 417 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%2.08
2014100.0%3.50.3315
2015100.0%3.60.2820
2016100.0%4.30.2427
2017100.0%3.20.3135
2018100.0%2.50.4137
2019100.0%2.20.4823
2020100.0%2.80.3634
2021100.0%3.00.3454
2022100.0%2.60.4220
2023100.0%2.60.3925
2024100.0%2.80.5630
2025100.0%2.70.3615
202671.4%4.20.247

By sector

Professional Services100.0% open-market · 167 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 71 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 66 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 45 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 22 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Environment84.6% open-market · 13 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 10 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 4 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 2026-08-02.