Buyer profile
How Environmental Protection Agency buys
Based on 409 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 409 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 43% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
403 awards, €153.1M of disclosed value
6 awards, €3.8M of disclosed value
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| Open-Market Procedure Share | 98.5% of 409 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.0 bids per award (n=206) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.31 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.0
Average across 206 of 409 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.31
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 167 of 409 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
18.9%
39 of 206 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
447
Top supplier share: 15.3% across 75 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 214 of 409 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 100.0% | 6.0 | 0.29 | 2 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 0.36 | 11 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.1 | 0.30 | 13 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.31 | 16 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 5.1 | 0.41 | 11 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 5.6 | 0.21 | 19 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 6.1 | 0.55 | 15 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 6.3 | 0.27 | 25 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 6.2 | 0.46 | 17 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.55 | 18 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 2.3 | 0.58 | 10 |
| 2024 | 87.0% | 3.6 | 0.33 | 23 |
| 2025 | 94.4% | 4.6 | 0.28 | 18 |
| 2026 | 87.5% | 7.8 | 0.16 | 16 |
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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.