Buyer profile
How Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage buys
Based on 675 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 Housing Local Government and Heritage's 674 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 70% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
657 awards, €175.9M of disclosed value
15 awards, €2.0M of disclosed value
2 awards, €2.0M of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.1
Average across 303 of 675 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.35
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 268 of 675 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 333 of 675 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.00 | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.00 | 1 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.50 | 6 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.20 | 3 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.25 | 3 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.4 | 0.33 | 7 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.33 | 5 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 1.0 | — | 1 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 1.9 | 0.53 | 19 |
| 2022 | 85.7% | 3.9 | 0.40 | 14 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 2.4 | 0.43 | 35 |
| 2024 | 95.5% | 3.2 | 0.33 | 66 |
| 2025 | 91.3% | 3.5 | 0.30 | 104 |
| 2026 | 98.5% | 3.0 | 0.42 | 68 |
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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 2026-09-03.