Buyer profile
How Health Service Executive (HSE) buys
Based on 2,825 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 Health Service Executive (HSE)'s 2,697 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); 128 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
2,390 awards, €34534.1M of disclosed value
306 awards, €451.1M of disclosed value
1 award
Health Service Executive (HSE)
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 88.6% of 2,825 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 8.3 bids per award (n=741) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.53 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
8.3
Average across 741 of 2,825 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.53
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 511 of 2,825 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
15%
111 of 741 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,185
Top supplier share: 26.8% across 216 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 1,108 of 2,825 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% | 6.1 | 0.22 | 9 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.46 | 19 |
| 2015 | 96.7% | 11.8 | 0.53 | 30 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 11.0 | 0.86 | 56 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 11.2 | 0.88 | 60 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 6.7 | 0.57 | 58 |
| 2019 | 92.3% | 6.7 | 0.35 | 52 |
| 2020 | 97.5% | 9.3 | 0.73 | 79 |
| 2021 | 83.3% | 6.9 | 0.61 | 48 |
| 2022 | 60.5% | 4.5 | 0.29 | 81 |
| 2023 | 59.6% | 9.4 | 0.69 | 95 |
| 2024 | 53.3% | 5.5 | 0.44 | 135 |
| 2025 | 73.2% | 5.9 | 0.32 | 142 |
| 2026 | 71.7% | 10.5 | 0.35 | 244 |
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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.