Buyer profile
How Kildare County Council buys
Based on 461 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 County Council's 457 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 47% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
433 awards, €630.0M of disclosed value
21 awards, €612k of disclosed value
3 awards, €2.3M of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.7
Average across 176 of 461 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.41
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 148 of 461 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 212 of 461 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 2 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.8 | 1.00 | 6 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.5 | 0.50 | 5 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.0 | — | 2 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 1.8 | 0.50 | 16 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.43 | 15 |
| 2020 | 95.2% | 5.1 | 0.31 | 21 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.40 | 30 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 7.4 | 0.37 | 7 |
| 2023 | 76.5% | 5.4 | 0.73 | 18 |
| 2024 | 76.0% | 3.3 | 0.35 | 25 |
| 2025 | 97.6% | 7.2 | 0.39 | 41 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.46 | 24 |
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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.