Buyer profile
How daa plc buys
Based on 399 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 397 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 50% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 2 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
393 awards, €4833.2M of disclosed value
0 awards
4 awards, €1.6M of disclosed value
daa plc
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 99.0% of 399 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.1 bids per award (n=50) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.31 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.1
Average across 50 of 399 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.31
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 31 of 399 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
8%
4 of 50 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
6,499
Top supplier share: 79% across 8 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 54 of 399 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 8.0 | 0.22 | 2 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 6.3 | - | 4 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.3 | - | 4 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 8.0 | - | 3 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 11.0 | - | 2 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 7.4 | 0.25 | 7 |
| 2024 | 77.8% | 3.9 | 0.44 | 9 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.00 | 5 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.31 | 18 |
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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.