Buyer profile
How Limerick City and County Council buys
Based on 891 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 Limerick City and County Council's 891 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 45% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
882 awards, €2677.2M of disclosed value
7 awards, €1.0M of disclosed value
2 awards
Limerick City and County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 99.0% of 891 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.2 bids per award (n=449) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.42 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.2
Average across 449 of 891 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.42
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 427 of 891 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
26.9%
121 of 449 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,212
Top supplier share: 31.4% across 135 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 480 of 891 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 | 10 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 7.8 | 0.66 | 12 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.3 | 0.85 | 36 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.89 | 19 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 1.7 | 0.70 | 23 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.68 | 20 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.27 | 23 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 5.6 | 0.23 | 18 |
| 2022 | 98.2% | 4.5 | 0.50 | 54 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.34 | 53 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.5 | 0.44 | 77 |
| 2025 | 92.3% | 5.2 | 0.26 | 65 |
| 2026 | 98.6% | 5.0 | 0.25 | 70 |
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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.