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How Munster Technological University. buys

Based on 576 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 Munster Technological University.'s 575 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 46% 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 · 97.4% of value

565 awards, €116.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition1.7% of awards · 2.6% of value

10 awards, €3.2M of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.1

Average across 465 of 576 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.55

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 324 of 576 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 520 of 576 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%1.01.002
2015100.0%1.51.0015
2016100.0%1.41.0041
2017100.0%1.51.0019
2018100.0%2.00.8026
2019100.0%2.41.0022
2020100.0%3.30.6452
2021100.0%3.60.3148
2022100.0%3.30.3067
2023100.0%4.50.3769
202497.2%3.30.6571
202589.5%3.40.3867
202695.2%3.30.5321

By sector

Other99.4% open-market · 157 awards
Professional Services97.9% open-market · 142 awards
IT Services96.5% open-market · 85 awards
Construction97.5% open-market · 81 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 26 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 25 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 21 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 21 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 11 awards
Environment85.7% open-market · 7 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.