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How Dublin Port Company buys

Based on 62 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 58 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 81% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market98.3% of awards · 100.0% of value

57 awards, €705.1M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Single-tender1.7% of awards · 0.0% of value

1 award

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

9.8

Average across 26 of 62 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.21

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 17 of 62 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 39 of 62 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2016100.0%1
2017100.0%5
2019100.0%4.56
2021100.0%14.30.143
2022100.0%7.73
2023100.0%21.00.184
2024100.0%8.00.113
2025100.0%4.00.253
2026100.0%8.20.2711

By sector

Professional Services100.0% open-market · 26 awards
Construction92.3% open-market · 15 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 8 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 8 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Facilities100.0% 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 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.