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How data-protection-commission buys

Based on 9 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 data-protection-commission's 9 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 56% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market 88.9% of awards · 90.9% of value

8 awards , €2.6M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 11.1% of awards · 9.1% of value

1 award , €263k of disclosed value

Single-tender 0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.6

Average across 8 of 9 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.28

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 8 of 9 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 9 of 9 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
2021 100.0% 4.0 0.33 4
2023 100.0% 6.0 0.00 1
2025 66.7% 1.5 0.50 3
2026 100.0% 4.0 0.25 1

By sector

IT Services 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Environment 100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Defence 0.0% open-market · 1 award
Other 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Professional Services 100.0% open-market · 1 award

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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 on data.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.