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How department-of-public-expenditure-national-development-plan-delivery-and-reform buys

Based on 93 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-public-expenditure-national-development-plan-delivery-and-reform's 93 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 33% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market100.0% of awards · 100.0% of value

93 awards, €99.9M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Single-tender0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.4

Average across 34 of 93 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.47

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 27 of 93 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 39 of 93 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2013100.0%4.00.501
2014100.0%4.00.672
2015100.0%1.01.003
2017100.0%6.00.253
2018100.0%3.00.252
2019100.0%1.70.503
2020100.0%1.02
2021100.0%4.30.333
2022100.0%3.30.676
2023100.0%3.60.5913
2024100.0%4.00.501

By sector

IT Services100.0% open-market · 49 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 19 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 14 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 9 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 1 award
Defence100.0% 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 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.