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How Central Statistics Office buys

Based on 134 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 Central Statistics Office's 134 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 61% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market97.0% of awards · 97.3% of value

130 awards, €97.8M of disclosed value

Limited-competition3.0% of awards · 2.7% of value

4 awards, €2.7M of disclosed value

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

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Open-Market Procedure Share97.0% of 134 awards
Average Bids Received3.2 bids per award (n=69)
SME-Access Ratio0.33 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.2

Average across 69 of 134 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.33

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 53 of 134 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

34.8%

24 of 69 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

936

Top supplier share: 17% across 30 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 80 of 134 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2014100.0%1.70.806
2015100.0%3.00.002
2016100.0%2.30.004
2017100.0%1.0-1
2018100.0%4.00.174
2019100.0%2.50.509
2020100.0%3.20.336
2021100.0%2.00.004
2022100.0%2.50.228
2023100.0%5.00.547
202485.7%3.30.337
202581.3%3.10.2716
2026100.0%6.50.146

By sector

IT Services98.8% open-market · 83 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 27 awards
Other92.3% open-market · 13 awards
Environment50.0% open-market · 4 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 1 award
Education100.0% open-market · 1 award
Facilities100.0% open-market · 1 award

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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.