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How City of Dublin Education and Training Board buys

Based on 185 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 City of Dublin Education and Training Board's 181 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 41% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market98.3% of awards · 97.9% of value

178 awards, €113.1M of disclosed value

Limited-competition1.7% of awards · 2.1% of value

3 awards, €2.4M of disclosed value

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

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City of Dublin Education and Training Board

Open-Market Procedure Share98.3% of 185 awards
Average Bids Received3.2 bids per award (n=85)
SME-Access Ratio0.42 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.2

Average across 85 of 185 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.42

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 69 of 185 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

43.5%

37 of 85 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

670

Top supplier share: 14.2% across 27 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 89 of 185 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%1.01.001
2015100.0%1.20.7919
2016100.0%2.60.4115
2017100.0%6.70.273
2018100.0%5.00.173
2019100.0%3.4-5
2021100.0%9.00.114
2022100.0%3.40.6216
2023100.0%3.50.336
2024100.0%4.00.292
2025100.0%4.50.332
202676.9%3.20.4213

By sector

Construction100.0% open-market · 56 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 42 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 25 awards
IT Services91.7% open-market · 24 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 12 awards
Defence85.7% open-market · 7 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 3 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 2026-11-02.