Buyer profile
How Department of Education and Youth buys
Based on 427 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 Department of Education and Youth's 427 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 74% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
401 awards, €19776.6M of disclosed value
26 awards, €43.8M of disclosed value
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Department of Education and Youth
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 93.9% of 427 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.8 bids per award (n=116) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.32 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.8
Average across 116 of 427 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.32
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 76 of 427 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
12.9%
15 of 116 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,591
Top supplier share: 30.5% across 43 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 172 of 427 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% | 5.3 | 0.50 | 6 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 2.1 | 0.62 | 7 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.29 | 3 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 9.0 | - | 3 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 1.0 | - | 2 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.5 | 0.55 | 2 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 6.8 | 0.25 | 36 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 9.3 | 0.21 | 17 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 0.00 | 8 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.36 | 18 |
| 2024 | 36.4% | 5.3 | 0.53 | 22 |
| 2025 | 67.9% | 5.0 | 0.39 | 28 |
| 2026 | 85.0% | 6.0 | 0.27 | 20 |
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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.