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How Department of Justice Home Affairs and Migration buys

Based on 36 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 Justice Home Affairs and Migration's 36 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 97% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market 94.4% of awards · 99.5% of value

34 awards , €102.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 5.6% of awards · 0.5% of value

2 awards , €550k of disclosed value

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

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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.2

Average across 18 of 36 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.19

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 17 of 36 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 21 of 36 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
2024 83.3% 9.6 0.14 6
2025 85.7% 2.2 0.40 7
2026 100.0% 4.4 0.21 8

By sector

IT Services 100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Professional Services 81.8% open-market · 11 awards
Other 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Defence 100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Facilities 100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Healthcare 100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Transport 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 2026-06-27.