Buyer profile
How Fingal County Council buys
Based on 645 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 Fingal County Council's 644 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 51% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
625 awards, €2108.0M of disclosed value
18 awards, €5.6M of disclosed value
1 award
Fingal County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 97.0% of 645 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.3 bids per award (n=379) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.31 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.3
Average across 379 of 645 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.31
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 356 of 645 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
19.5%
74 of 379 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,099
Top supplier share: 21.6% across 102 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 435 of 645 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 | 1.00 | 3 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 2 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.3 | 1.00 | 7 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.27 | 26 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.42 | 51 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.7 | 0.31 | 30 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.27 | 36 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.29 | 52 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 4.7 | 0.25 | 36 |
| 2023 | 95.6% | 4.8 | 0.29 | 45 |
| 2024 | 93.5% | 3.5 | 0.34 | 46 |
| 2025 | 90.3% | 4.3 | 0.35 | 62 |
| 2026 | 84.6% | 4.7 | 0.27 | 39 |
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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.