Buyer profile
How Cavan County Council buys
Based on 406 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 Cavan County Council's 406 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 56% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
345 awards, €204.4M of disclosed value
61 awards, €6.6M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.2
Average across 283 of 406 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.46
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 261 of 406 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 348 of 406 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 7 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 3 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.50 | 1 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.30 | 7 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.29 | 11 |
| 2019 | 79.2% | 1.6 | 0.68 | 24 |
| 2020 | 67.4% | 4.7 | 0.32 | 43 |
| 2021 | 64.9% | 6.9 | 0.34 | 57 |
| 2022 | 78.8% | 2.9 | 0.41 | 52 |
| 2023 | 81.3% | 4.8 | 0.53 | 48 |
| 2024 | 97.0% | 4.3 | 0.53 | 33 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.42 | 47 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 6.5 | 0.67 | 15 |
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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.