Buyer profile
How Marine Institute buys
Based on 638 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 Marine Institute's 638 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 31% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
635 awards, €118.1M of disclosed value
3 awards, €1.1M of disclosed value
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Marine Institute
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 99.5% of 638 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 3.7 bids per award (n=471) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.53 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Marine Institute contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.7
Average across 471 of 638 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.53
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 471 of 638 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
27.8%
131 of 471 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
956
Top supplier share: 26.7% across 87 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 475 of 638 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% | 3.0 | 0.00 | 1 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.34 | 50 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.42 | 59 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.55 | 36 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.51 | 60 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 0.48 | 26 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.67 | 90 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.66 | 42 |
| 2023 | 97.1% | 2.6 | 0.49 | 35 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.74 | 19 |
| 2025 | 97.1% | 3.8 | 0.63 | 34 |
| 2026 | 95.7% | 3.8 | 0.34 | 23 |
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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.