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How Cork Education and Training Board buys

Based on 289 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 Education and Training Board's 289 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 37% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market99.0% of awards · 98.9% of value

286 awards, €245.6M of disclosed value

Limited-competition1.0% of awards · 1.1% of value

3 awards, €2.8M of disclosed value

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

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Open-Market Procedure Share99.0% of 289 awards
Average Bids Received3.1 bids per award (n=175)
SME-Access Ratio0.55 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.1

Average across 175 of 289 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.55

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 171 of 289 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

41.7%

73 of 175 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

8,995

Top supplier share: 94.8% across 42 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 180 of 289 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2013100.0%4.00.251
2014100.0%1.30.739
2015100.0%2.30.427
2016100.0%1.31.009
2017100.0%2.50.9827
2018100.0%1.61.0010
2019100.0%2.90.5322
2020100.0%3.30.4520
2021100.0%5.00.3722
2022100.0%4.30.5112
2023100.0%3.40.6012
202485.7%4.30.247
202584.6%3.10.4513
2026100.0%3.60.599

By sector

Construction100.0% open-market · 105 awards
Other98.6% open-market · 70 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 48 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 18 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 16 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 11 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 10 awards
Environment80.0% open-market · 5 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Defence66.7% 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.