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How Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council buys

Based on 164 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 Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's 164 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 70% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market 98.8% of awards · 99.7% of value

162 awards , €803.2M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 0.6% of awards · 0.2% of value

1 award , €1.6M of disclosed value

Single-tender 0.6% of awards · 0.1% of value

1 award , €550k of disclosed value

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.3

Average across 53 of 164 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.40

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 50 of 164 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 55 of 164 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 77.8% 3.9 0.43 9
2025 100.0% 4.6 0.58 13
2026 100.0% 5.8 0.34 33

By sector

Construction 100.0% open-market · 66 awards
Professional Services 96.0% open-market · 50 awards
Other 100.0% open-market · 26 awards
Environment 100.0% open-market · 7 awards
Transport 100.0% open-market · 7 awards
IT Services 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Facilities 100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Education 100.0% open-market · 2 awards

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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.