Buyer profile
How Dublin Port Company buys
Based on 66 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 Port Company's 62 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 82% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
61 awards, €718.6M of disclosed value
0 awards
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Dublin Port Company
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 98.4% of 66 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 9.8 bids per award (n=27) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.22 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Dublin Port Company contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
9.8
Average across 27 of 66 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.22
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 19 of 66 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
7.4%
2 of 27 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
2,005
Top supplier share: 28.3% across 25 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 40 of 66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 100.0% | - | - | 1 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | - | - | 5 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.5 | - | 6 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 14.3 | 0.14 | 3 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 7.7 | - | 3 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 21.0 | 0.18 | 4 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 8.0 | 0.11 | 3 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.25 | 3 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 8.2 | 0.28 | 12 |
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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.