Buyer profile
How Monaghan County Council buys
Based on 581 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 Monaghan County Council's 581 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 53% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
516 awards, €702.1M of disclosed value
65 awards, €5.0M of disclosed value
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Monaghan County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 88.8% of 581 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 3.7 bids per award (n=326) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.44 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.7
Average across 326 of 581 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.44
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 311 of 581 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
27.9%
91 of 326 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
859
Top supplier share: 16.4% across 72 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 370 of 581 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% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 3 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.94 | 6 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 1.00 | 6 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 2.3 | 1.00 | 12 |
| 2018 | 91.7% | 1.7 | 0.79 | 24 |
| 2019 | 68.9% | 3.8 | 0.36 | 45 |
| 2020 | 70.5% | 4.4 | 0.27 | 44 |
| 2021 | 96.2% | 7.0 | 0.59 | 26 |
| 2022 | 92.7% | 2.8 | 0.47 | 41 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.0 | 0.36 | 35 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.7 | 0.41 | 83 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.36 | 30 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.30 | 15 |
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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.