Buyer profile
How Health Service Executive (HSE) buys
Based on 2,659 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 2,533 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); 126 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
2,267 awards, €29719.3M of disclosed value
265 awards, €300.7M of disclosed value
1 award
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
7.6
Average across 670 of 2,659 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.59
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 439 of 2,659 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 987 of 2,659 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 | 61.2% | 8.9 | 0.68 | 99 |
| 2024 | 54.7% | 5.5 | 0.42 | 139 |
| 2025 | 74.3% | 5.8 | 0.32 | 144 |
| 2026 | 74.3% | 7.3 | 0.35 | 113 |
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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 2026-08-02.