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Based on 90 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 Met Eireann's 90 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 70% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market93.3% of awards · 99.4% of value

84 awards, €50.9M of disclosed value

Limited-competition6.7% of awards · 0.6% of value

6 awards, €314k of disclosed value

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

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Open-Market Procedure Share93.3% of 90 awards
Average Bids Received2.4 bids per award (n=49)
SME-Access Ratio0.47 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

2.4

Average across 49 of 90 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.47

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 40 of 90 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

38.8%

19 of 49 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

1,976

Top supplier share: 40.5% across 25 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 59 of 90 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2014100.0%1.31.003
2015100.0%2.70.503
2016100.0%5.0-1
2017100.0%3.30.503
2018100.0%2.31.004
2019100.0%1.0-3
202033.3%1.01.006
202177.8%3.30.459
2022100.0%2.00.606
2023100.0%2.50.252
2024100.0%1.60.807
2025100.0%3.10.269
2026100.0%1.70.333

By sector

IT Services100.0% open-market · 31 awards
Other75.0% open-market · 24 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 7 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 5 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 1 award
Construction100.0% open-market · 1 award

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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.