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How daa plc buys

Based on 375 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 daa plc's 374 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 51% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market98.9% of awards · 100.0% of value

370 awards, €4631.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Single-tender1.1% of awards · 0.0% of value

4 awards, €1.6M of disclosed value

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.3

Average across 46 of 375 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.31

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 27 of 375 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 48 of 375 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%8.00.222
2018100.0%6.34
2019100.0%5.34
2021100.0%8.03
2022100.0%11.02
2023100.0%7.40.297
202477.8%3.90.419
2025100.0%3.00.004
2026100.0%3.50.3213

By sector

Professional Services98.8% open-market · 83 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 82 awards
Transport98.4% open-market · 62 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 57 awards
Construction98.0% open-market · 50 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 17 awards
Environment87.5% open-market · 8 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 8 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 8 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 2026-08-02.