Buyer profile
How Donegal County Council buys
Based on 896 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 895 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 36% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
862 awards, €537.4M of disclosed value
33 awards, €10.2M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
2.6
Average across 331 of 896 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.41
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 291 of 896 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 368 of 896 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 | 94.4% | 3.5 | 0.30 | 54 |
| 2025 | 92.0% | 2.9 | 0.36 | 75 |
| 2026 | 95.2% | 2.5 | 0.45 | 21 |
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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.