Buyer profile
How Education Procurement Service (EPS) buys
Based on 1,566 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 Education Procurement Service (EPS)'s 1,551 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 56% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 15 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
1,537 awards, €1880.7M of disclosed value
14 awards, €25.5M of disclosed value
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Education Procurement Service (EPS)
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 99.1% of 1,566 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 3.3 bids per award (n=1281) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.55 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.3
Average across 1,281 of 1,566 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.55
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 1,229 of 1,566 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
31.6%
405 of 1281 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
270
Top supplier share: 7.8% across 421 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 1,309 of 1,566 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% | 11.3 | 0.50 | 3 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 5.2 | 0.50 | 13 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.43 | 45 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.47 | 124 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.43 | 81 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.42 | 119 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.60 | 126 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.61 | 150 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.57 | 175 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.55 | 123 |
| 2024 | 98.2% | 3.4 | 0.61 | 108 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.57 | 139 |
| 2026 | 91.3% | 3.7 | 0.57 | 103 |
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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.