Buyer profile
How Commission for Regulation of Utilities buys
Based on 173 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 Commission for Regulation of Utilities's 173 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 65% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
137 awards, €132.9M of disclosed value
36 awards, €41.0M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.8
Average across 107 of 173 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.31
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 84 of 173 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 144 of 173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 100.0% | 4.8 | — | 4 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.40 | 5 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 5.7 | 0.26 | 15 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.29 | 12 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.19 | 6 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.32 | 11 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.14 | 8 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 10.7 | 0.80 | 3 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 2.0 | — | 2 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.17 | 9 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.33 | 6 |
| 2024 | 47.1% | 6.4 | 0.47 | 17 |
| 2025 | 34.5% | 4.3 | 0.17 | 29 |
| 2026 | 52.9% | 5.0 | 0.29 | 17 |
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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 2026-09-02.