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Buyer profile

How Inland Fisheries Ireland buys

Based on 296 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 Inland Fisheries Ireland's 296 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 29% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market99.3% of awards · 98.9% of value

294 awards, €31.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.3% of awards · 0.1% of value

1 award, €15k of disclosed value

Single-tender0.3% of awards · 1.1% of value

1 award, €350k of disclosed value

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

2.6

Average across 167 of 296 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.51

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 162 of 296 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 170 of 296 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2013100.0%1.73
2014100.0%2.80.365
2015100.0%1.01.005
2016100.0%1.31.007
2017100.0%1.20.8115
2018100.0%1.30.9517
2019100.0%1.11.0014
2020100.0%2.70.437
2021100.0%7.80.129
2022100.0%3.10.3826
2023100.0%3.80.5622
2024100.0%1.90.4513
2025100.0%2.80.6719
202687.5%2.80.438

By sector

Professional Services98.7% open-market · 77 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 59 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 51 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 33 awards
IT Services95.5% open-market · 22 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 19 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 16 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 2 awards

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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.