Buyer profile
How IDA Ireland buys
Based on 472 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 IDA Ireland's 472 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 39% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
469 awards, €500.5M of disclosed value
3 awards, €1.8M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.2
Average across 186 of 472 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.21
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 98 of 472 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 206 of 472 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% | 2.0 | 0.50 | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.7 | 1.00 | 7 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.86 | 6 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.11 | 10 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 10.0 | 0.00 | 3 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 6.5 | 0.36 | 15 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.9 | 0.33 | 8 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 7.7 | 0.00 | 6 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 6.0 | 0.11 | 39 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 5.7 | 0.19 | 38 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.08 | 18 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 6.3 | 0.17 | 16 |
| 2025 | 95.2% | 3.2 | 0.33 | 21 |
| 2026 | 88.9% | 4.4 | 0.19 | 18 |
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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.