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Buyer profile

How National Gallery of Ireland buys

Based on 19 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 National Gallery of Ireland's 18 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 95% 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-market 77.8% of awards · 56.9% of value

14 awards , €7.0M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 16.7% of awards · 2.3% of value

3 awards , €275k of disclosed value

Single-tender 5.6% of awards · 40.9% of value

1 award , €5.0M of disclosed value

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

2.6

Average across 11 of 19 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.43

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 10 of 19 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 14 of 19 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
2024 100.0% 3.3 0.33 3
2025 66.7% 2.5 0.46 9
2026 100.0% 2.0 0.50 2

By sector

Other 80.0% open-market · 5 awards
Professional Services 100.0% open-market · 5 awards
IT Services 75.0% open-market · 4 awards
Transport 0.0% open-market · 3 awards
Facilities 100.0% open-market · 1 award
Construction 100.0% 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 on data.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 2026-06-27.