Buyer profile
How department-of-foreign-affairs-and-trade-an-roinn-gnothai-eachtracha-agus-tradala buys
Based on 359 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-foreign-affairs-and-trade-an-roinn-gnothai-eachtracha-agus-tradala's 359 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 49% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
358 awards, €502.3M of disclosed value
0 awards
1 award, €6.6M of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.9
Average across 241 of 359 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.33
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 232 of 359 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 259 of 359 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% | 2.3 | 1.00 | 3 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.46 | 14 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.5 | 0.27 | 21 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.51 | 18 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.34 | 20 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.31 | 27 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 3.9 | 0.25 | 28 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.32 | 24 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.1 | 0.34 | 25 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.40 | 29 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.38 | 22 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.23 | 19 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.24 | 9 |
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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.