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How Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board buys

Based on 59 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 Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board's 58 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 95% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market 96.5% of awards · 99.6% of value

56 awards , €94.9M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 3.5% of awards · 0.4% of value

2 awards , €376k of disclosed value

Single-tender 0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.4

Average across 34 of 59 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.29

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 31 of 59 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 36 of 59 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
2024 93.3% 2.9 0.32 15
2025 100.0% 3.9 0.25 16
2026 80.0% 3.3 0.36 5

By sector

Construction 100.0% open-market · 26 awards
Other 92.9% open-market · 15 awards
Professional Services 100.0% open-market · 14 awards
IT Services 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Healthcare 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Defence 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Environment 0.0% open-market · 1 award

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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 on data.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 2026-06-27.