Buyer profile
How higher-education-authority buys
Based on 8 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 higher-education-authority's 8 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 100% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
8 awards, €5.3M of disclosed value
0 awards
0 awards
higher-education-authority
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 8 awards |
| Average Bids Received | See bid breakdown below |
| SME-Access Ratio | See SME breakdown below |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | higher-education-authority contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
Bid-count data not yet published for enough of this authority's awards (4 of 8).
SME-access ratio
SME bid-count data not yet published for enough of this authority's awards (4 of 8).
Single-bidder award rate
Insufficient bid-count disclosures (n < 5)
Winner concentration (HHI)
6,775
Top supplier share: 81.8% across 7 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 5 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 100.0% | - | - | 1 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 10.5 | 0.15 | 4 |
By sector
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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.