Buyer profile
How Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail buys
Based on 2,200 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 Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail's 2,002 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 43% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 198 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
1,068 awards, €11004.2M of disclosed value
721 awards, €349.3M of disclosed value
213 awards, €641k of disclosed value
Iarnród Eireann-Irish Rail
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 53.3% of 2,200 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.0 bids per award (n=600) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.30 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.0
Average across 600 of 2,200 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.30
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 379 of 2,200 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
19%
114 of 600 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
2,249
Top supplier share: 42.8% across 121 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 1,001 of 2,200 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% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 2 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.50 | 5 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.1 | - | 13 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.5 | 1.00 | 28 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.9 | 0.80 | 52 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 1.7 | 0.63 | 55 |
| 2019 | 76.4% | 4.1 | 0.34 | 72 |
| 2020 | 55.8% | 5.8 | 0.24 | 77 |
| 2021 | 72.3% | 7.5 | 0.18 | 83 |
| 2022 | 69.7% | 6.2 | 0.32 | 68 |
| 2023 | 85.5% | 6.2 | 0.31 | 87 |
| 2024 | 35.8% | 4.9 | 0.21 | 109 |
| 2025 | 38.4% | 4.7 | 0.25 | 125 |
| 2026 | 35.1% | 5.5 | 0.33 | 225 |
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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.