Buyer profile
How Donegal County Council buys
Based on 961 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 Donegal County Council's 960 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 39% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
925 awards, €549.3M of disclosed value
35 awards, €12.8M of disclosed value
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Donegal County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 96.4% of 961 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 2.7 bids per award (n=359) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.40 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
2.7
Average across 359 of 961 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.40
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 323 of 961 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
42.1%
151 of 359 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,013
Top supplier share: 15.7% across 67 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 398 of 961 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% | 7.0 | 0.33 | 2 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.5 | - | 2 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 5 |
| 2016 | 33.3% | 1.5 | - | 6 |
| 2017 | 50.0% | 1.5 | 1.00 | 4 |
| 2018 | 97.6% | 1.9 | 0.59 | 42 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 1.4 | 0.86 | 40 |
| 2020 | 96.4% | 3.0 | 0.35 | 55 |
| 2021 | 94.7% | 3.0 | 0.53 | 19 |
| 2022 | 90.9% | 2.5 | 0.45 | 22 |
| 2023 | 95.2% | 2.1 | 0.50 | 21 |
| 2024 | 94.2% | 3.4 | 0.31 | 52 |
| 2025 | 91.8% | 2.9 | 0.35 | 73 |
| 2026 | 94.5% | 3.2 | 0.33 | 55 |
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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.