Buyer profile
How Department of Further and Higher Education Research Innovation and Science buys
Based on 12 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 Further and Higher Education Research Innovation and Science's 12 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 100% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
11 awards, €8.1M of disclosed value
1 award, €99k of disclosed value
0 awards
Department of Further and Higher Education Research Innovation and Science
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 91.7% of 12 awards |
| Average Bids Received | See bid breakdown below |
| SME-Access Ratio | See SME breakdown below |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Department of Further and Higher Education Research Innovation and Science contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
Bid-count data not yet published for enough of this authority's awards (4 of 12).
SME-access ratio
SME bid-count data not yet published for enough of this authority's awards (4 of 12).
Single-bidder award rate
Insufficient bid-count disclosures (n < 5)
Winner concentration (HHI)
3,174
Top supplier share: 47.5% across 5 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 5 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66.7% | 5.5 | 0.22 | 3 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 6.0 | 0.11 | 2 |
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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.