Buyer profile
How Carlow County Council buys
Based on 475 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 Carlow County Council's 475 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 34% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
467 awards, €5173.6M of disclosed value
8 awards, €4.0M of disclosed value
0 awards
Carlow County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 98.3% of 475 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 3.4 bids per award (n=124) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.37 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.4
Average across 124 of 475 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.37
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 118 of 475 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
29%
36 of 124 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
9,634
Top supplier share: 98.2% across 48 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 152 of 475 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.2 | 0.83 | 10 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.6 | 0.63 | 5 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.14 | 4 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.50 | 2 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 1.8 | 0.63 | 10 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.33 | 8 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.31 | 21 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.20 | 12 |
| 2024 | 92.3% | 5.3 | 0.21 | 13 |
| 2025 | 92.3% | 4.4 | 0.28 | 26 |
| 2026 | 87.8% | 3.9 | 0.43 | 41 |
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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.