Buyer profile
How Cork County Council buys
Based on 1,035 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 County Council's 1,035 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); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
1,029 awards, €1482.1M of disclosed value
6 awards, €2.2M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.0
Average across 395 of 1,035 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.48
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 327 of 1,035 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 440 of 1,035 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% | 5.7 | 0.35 | 11 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.31 | 13 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 4.7 | 0.56 | 8 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 6.8 | 1.00 | 5 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.10 | 10 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.57 | 49 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.71 | 26 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.41 | 25 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.38 | 34 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.51 | 18 |
| 2023 | 96.4% | 3.8 | 0.55 | 56 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.49 | 54 |
| 2025 | 97.1% | 3.8 | 0.49 | 102 |
| 2026 | 96.5% | 3.6 | 0.32 | 29 |
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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 2026-09-03.