Buyer profile
How Cork City Council buys
Based on 957 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 Cork City Council's 954 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 45% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 3 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
942 awards, €1806.1M of disclosed value
12 awards, €547k of disclosed value
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Cork City Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 98.7% of 957 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.3 bids per award (n=290) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.40 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Cork City Council contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.3
Average across 290 of 957 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.40
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 250 of 957 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
15.2%
44 of 290 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,199
Top supplier share: 25% across 66 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 432 of 957 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% | 1.0 | - | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.28 | 12 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.33 | 3 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 5.1 | 0.39 | 47 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.29 | 14 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.7 | 0.17 | 10 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.36 | 21 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 5.2 | 0.53 | 33 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.2 | 0.43 | 18 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.4 | 0.67 | 15 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.37 | 35 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.35 | 52 |
| 2025 | 98.3% | 3.6 | 0.50 | 57 |
| 2026 | 92.1% | 3.8 | 0.40 | 114 |
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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.