Buyer profile
How Irish Prison Service buys
Based on 247 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 Irish Prison Service's 247 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 90% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
246 awards, €2001.1M of disclosed value
1 award, €380k of disclosed value
0 awards
Irish Prison Service
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 99.6% of 247 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 3.5 bids per award (n=153) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.39 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Irish Prison Service contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.5
Average across 153 of 247 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.39
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 87 of 247 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
23.5%
36 of 153 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,226
Top supplier share: 25.1% across 71 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 177 of 247 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% | 3.0 | - | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 0.32 | 9 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | - | - | 1 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | - | - | 2 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.0 | - | 3 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | - | - | 5 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.7 | - | 11 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 3.6 | - | 9 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 5.0 | - | 11 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.30 | 16 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.40 | 42 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 1.9 | 0.70 | 12 |
| 2025 | 95.7% | 4.7 | 0.34 | 23 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.40 | 32 |
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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.