Buyer profile
How Meath County Council buys
Based on 507 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 Meath County Council's 503 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 49% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
486 awards, €987.3M of disclosed value
17 awards, €3.8M of disclosed value
0 awards
Meath County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 96.6% of 507 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.0 bids per award (n=211) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.36 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Meath County Council contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.0
Average across 211 of 507 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.36
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 210 of 507 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
33.6%
71 of 211 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
6,388
Top supplier share: 79.7% across 51 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 241 of 507 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 100.0% | 1.0 | - | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 1.00 | 1 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | - | - | 2 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.33 | 3 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.4 | 0.71 | 33 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.45 | 29 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.8 | 0.13 | 5 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.33 | 6 |
| 2021 | 96.2% | 4.9 | 0.26 | 26 |
| 2022 | 76.4% | 5.6 | 0.32 | 55 |
| 2023 | 90.6% | 3.6 | 0.40 | 32 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.35 | 36 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 8.2 | 0.33 | 7 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 5.8 | 0.61 | 5 |
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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.