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How microfinance-ireland buys

Based on 10 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 microfinance-ireland's 10 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 90% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market80.0% of awards · 96.1% of value

8 awards, €6.8M of disclosed value

Limited-competition20.0% of awards · 3.9% of value

2 awards, €280k of disclosed value

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

0 awards

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Open-Market Procedure Share80.0% of 10 awards
Average Bids ReceivedSee bid breakdown below
SME-Access RatioSee SME breakdown below
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

Bid-count data not yet published for enough of this authority's awards (3 of 10).

SME-access ratio

SME bid-count data not yet published for enough of this authority's awards (2 of 10).

Single-bidder award rate

Insufficient bid-count disclosures (n < 5)

Winner concentration (HHI)

10,000

Top supplier share: 100% across 1 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 6 of 10 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2016100.0%--1
2018100.0%1.01.001
2019100.0%39.01.001
202350.0%5.0-2
20260.0%--1

By sector

Professional Services75.0% open-market · 8 awards
IT Services100.0% 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 2026-09-03.