Buyer profile
How Dublin City Council buys
Based on 1,173 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 City Council's 1,154 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 74% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 19 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
980 awards, €11208.7M of disclosed value
171 awards, €148.9M of disclosed value
3 awards, €17.8M of disclosed value
Dublin City Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 84.9% of 1,173 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.0 bids per award (n=772) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.50 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Dublin City Council contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.0
Average across 772 of 1,173 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.50
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 709 of 1,173 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
32.5%
251 of 772 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
655
Top supplier share: 21.5% across 379 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 1,001 of 1,173 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% | 1.7 | - | 3 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 3.9 | 0.83 | 24 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 1.00 | 62 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.6 | 1.00 | 59 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.72 | 69 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.2 | 0.58 | 48 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 6.4 | 0.42 | 81 |
| 2020 | 84.0% | 7.0 | 0.41 | 75 |
| 2021 | 67.1% | 5.2 | 0.42 | 79 |
| 2022 | 72.8% | 5.5 | 0.38 | 114 |
| 2023 | 72.6% | 6.5 | 0.48 | 124 |
| 2024 | 61.3% | 5.8 | 0.58 | 119 |
| 2025 | 81.1% | 5.1 | 0.39 | 90 |
| 2026 | 90.7% | 5.0 | 0.33 | 54 |
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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.