Buyer profile
How National Museum of Ireland buys
Based on 85 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 83 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 74% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 2 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
81 awards, €76.5M of disclosed value
2 awards, €900k of disclosed value
0 awards
National Museum of Ireland
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 97.6% of 85 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.9 bids per award (n=42) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.45 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.9
Average across 42 of 85 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.45
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 23 of 85 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
9.5%
4 of 42 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,457
Top supplier share: 25.1% across 19 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 46 of 85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.35 | 8 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 6.3 | 0.67 | 6 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 8.0 | - | 9 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 6.5 | 0.40 | 6 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.50 | 9 |
| 2025 | 71.4% | 2.8 | 0.42 | 7 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 19.0 | 0.44 | 1 |
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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.