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How Engineering Skillnet buys

Based on 15 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 Engineering Skillnet's 15 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 27% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market100.0% of awards · 100.0% of value

15 awards, €1.5M of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Single-tender0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.6

Average across 13 of 15 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.24

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 13 of 15 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 13 of 15 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2021100.0%1.01
2022100.0%2.30.333
2023100.0%5.00.217
2024100.0%3.00.331
2026100.0%1.01

By sector

Education100.0% open-market · 11 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 4 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 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 2026-09-02.