Buyer profile
How Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council buys
Based on 484 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 484 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 48% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
480 awards, €1569.1M of disclosed value
2 awards, €2.0M of disclosed value
2 awards, €1.1M of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.6
Average across 109 of 484 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.44
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 87 of 484 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 120 of 484 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.2 | 0.75 | 5 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.2 | 1.00 | 6 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 1.00 | 6 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | — | — | 3 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.67 | 6 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.6 | 0.70 | 9 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 7.2 | 0.48 | 5 |
| 2021 | 90.9% | 5.7 | 0.25 | 11 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.80 | 6 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.36 | 8 |
| 2024 | 77.8% | 3.9 | 0.43 | 9 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.58 | 13 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 5.8 | 0.34 | 33 |
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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.