Buyer profile
How limerick-institute-of-technology buys
Based on 79 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-institute-of-technology's 79 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 24% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
78 awards, €19.5M of disclosed value
1 award, €1.5M of disclosed value
0 awards
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| Open-Market Procedure Share | 98.7% of 79 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.9 bids per award (n=69) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.30 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.9
Average across 69 of 79 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.30
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 67 of 79 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
13%
9 of 69 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
2,683
Top supplier share: 48.9% across 12 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 70 of 79 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% | 4.6 | 0.37 | 16 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.35 | 7 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 9.6 | 0.21 | 7 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 2.6 | 0.33 | 5 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.13 | 3 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.33 | 12 |
| 2020 | 87.5% | 5.6 | 0.19 | 8 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.32 | 11 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 9.0 | 0.22 | 1 |
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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.