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Buyer profile

How Maynooth University buys

Based on 237 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 Maynooth University's 236 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 59% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market98.3% of awards · 99.7% of value

232 awards, €337.2M of disclosed value

Limited-competition1.7% of awards · 0.3% of value

4 awards, €1.0M of disclosed value

Single-tender0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.2

Average across 162 of 237 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.37

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 153 of 237 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 172 of 237 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2013100.0%2.00.001
2014100.0%1.50.754
2015100.0%3.80.405
2016100.0%4.00.505
2017100.0%6.00.333
2018100.0%3.10.438
2019100.0%3.40.4810
2020100.0%6.20.416
2021100.0%7.00.4614
2022100.0%3.80.4827
2023100.0%3.80.4013
2024100.0%3.20.3426
202590.5%5.00.2542
2026100.0%2.10.368

By sector

Professional Services98.6% open-market · 72 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 53 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 37 awards
Construction96.2% open-market · 26 awards
Facilities93.8% open-market · 16 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 9 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Defence50.0% open-market · 3 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 2 awards

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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.