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Buyer profile

How National Museum of Ireland buys

Based on 79 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 Museum of Ireland's 77 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 72% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 2 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market97.4% of awards · 98.7% of value

75 awards, €66.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition2.6% of awards · 1.3% of value

2 awards, €900k of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.6

Average across 41 of 79 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.45

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 22 of 79 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 45 of 79 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2020100.0%4.30.358
2021100.0%6.30.676
2022100.0%8.09
2023100.0%6.50.406
2024100.0%4.60.509
202571.4%2.80.427

By sector

Professional Services100.0% open-market · 31 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 19 awards
IT Services92.9% open-market · 14 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Environment66.7% open-market · 3 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Facilities100.0% 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 2026-08-02.