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How Dublin Bus / Bus Atha Cliath buys

Based on 75 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 Bus / Bus Atha Cliath's 75 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 99% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market 100.0% of awards · 100.0% of value

75 awards , €280.3M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.0

Average across 48 of 75 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.31

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 46 of 75 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 50 of 75 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 100.0% 5.0 0.31 26
2025 100.0% 5.9 0.30 17
2026 100.0% 2.4 0.38 7

By sector

Transport 100.0% open-market · 24 awards
Facilities 100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Construction 100.0% open-market · 12 awards
Other 100.0% open-market · 10 awards
Professional Services 100.0% open-market · 9 awards
Healthcare 100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Environment 100.0% open-market · 2 awards
IT Services 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Defence 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.