Buyer profile
How Electricity Supply Board ( ESB ) buys
Based on 518 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 Electricity Supply Board ( ESB )'s 449 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 47% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 69 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
447 awards, €3303.4M of disclosed value
0 awards
2 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
9.1
Average across 219 of 518 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.23
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 146 of 518 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 233 of 518 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% | 10.6 | 0.30 | 7 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 12.5 | 0.00 | 16 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 7.2 | 0.10 | 12 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 9.9 | 0.17 | 33 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 9.7 | 0.17 | 25 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 10.5 | 0.34 | 41 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 9.1 | 0.24 | 30 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 7.6 | 0.26 | 25 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.25 | 13 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 6.8 | 0.18 | 21 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 5.7 | 0.23 | 10 |
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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.