Buyer profile
How Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority buys
Based on 493 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 Fáilte Ireland-National Tourism Development Authority's 490 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 66% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 3 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
464 awards, €713.1M of disclosed value
26 awards, €16.1M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.9
Average across 370 of 493 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.38
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 351 of 493 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 435 of 493 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% | 1.0 | — | 2 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.1 | 1.00 | 25 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.4 | 0.84 | 22 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.3 | 1.00 | 33 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 1.8 | 0.92 | 44 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.36 | 31 |
| 2020 | 96.4% | 6.8 | 0.19 | 28 |
| 2021 | 92.7% | 5.1 | 0.33 | 41 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.29 | 40 |
| 2023 | 93.6% | 5.7 | 0.41 | 50 |
| 2024 | 86.7% | 3.0 | 0.32 | 45 |
| 2025 | 79.6% | 4.6 | 0.25 | 49 |
| 2026 | 88.0% | 3.8 | 0.28 | 25 |
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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 2026-09-03.