Buyer profile
How Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board buys
Based on 424 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 Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board's 423 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 34% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
423 awards, €1310.5M of disclosed value
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Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 424 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.4 bids per award (n=114) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.48 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.4
Average across 114 of 424 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.48
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 109 of 424 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
21.1%
24 of 114 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
694
Top supplier share: 15.5% across 28 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 114 of 424 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.44 | 8 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.31 | 16 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 6.0 | 0.42 | 20 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 6.1 | 0.38 | 8 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.77 | 24 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 7.0 | 0.14 | 1 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.44 | 6 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.51 | 15 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 2.3 | 0.64 | 8 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 6.4 | 0.34 | 5 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.25 | 3 |
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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.