Buyer profile
How Gas Networks Ireland buys
Based on 256 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 Gas Networks Ireland's 216 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 50% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 40 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
216 awards, €19400.5M of disclosed value
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Gas Networks Ireland
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 256 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 6.7 bids per award (n=96) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.30 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
6.7
Average across 96 of 256 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.30
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 9 of 256 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
8.3%
8 of 96 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
3,401
Top supplier share: 47.7% across 13 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 142 of 256 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% | 3.0 | - | 1 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | - | - | 2 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | - | - | 5 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.5 | - | 19 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.3 | - | 22 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 6.4 | - | 41 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 8.0 | - | 25 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 9.5 | - | 8 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 6.0 | - | 9 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 1.00 | 2 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 12.5 | 0.36 | 2 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 6.2 | 0.24 | 6 |
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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.