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How Environmental Protection Agency buys

Based on 70 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 Environmental Protection Agency's 70 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 99% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market 92.9% of awards · 94.9% of value

65 awards , €70.4M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 7.1% of awards · 5.1% of value

5 awards , €3.8M of disclosed value

Single-tender 0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.6

Average across 44 of 70 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.27

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 43 of 70 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 50 of 70 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 87.0% 3.6 0.33 23
2025 94.4% 4.6 0.28 18
2026 88.9% 7.1 0.21 9

By sector

IT Services 84.6% open-market · 26 awards
Professional Services 95.0% open-market · 20 awards
Environment 100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Other 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Construction 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Education 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Transport 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Facilities 100.0% open-market · 1 award

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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.