Buyer profile
How Kildare County Council buys
Based on 499 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 494 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 53% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 5 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
459 awards, €664.3M of disclosed value
32 awards, €3.2M of disclosed value
3 awards, €2.3M of disclosed value
Kildare County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 92.9% of 499 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.6 bids per award (n=196) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.40 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.6
Average across 196 of 499 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.40
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 168 of 499 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
22.4%
44 of 196 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
662
Top supplier share: 12.3% across 85 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 255 of 499 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 | 19 |
| 2024 | 76.0% | 3.3 | 0.35 | 25 |
| 2025 | 97.4% | 7.2 | 0.39 | 39 |
| 2026 | 67.7% | 4.4 | 0.37 | 68 |
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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.