Buyer profile
How National Paediatric Hospital Development Board buys
Based on 83 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 Paediatric Hospital Development Board's 83 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 71% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
78 awards, €874.2M of disclosed value
4 awards, €1.6M of disclosed value
1 award
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 94.0% of 83 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.6 bids per award (n=47) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.26 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.6
Average across 47 of 83 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.26
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 37 of 83 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
17%
8 of 47 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,288
Top supplier share: 22.3% across 29 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 53 of 83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.50 | 1 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 2.9 | 0.36 | 7 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.38 | 7 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 1.00 | 1 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 8.0 | - | 1 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 5.5 | 0.11 | 3 |
| 2023 | 80.0% | 4.7 | 0.14 | 5 |
| 2024 | 88.9% | 4.7 | 0.29 | 9 |
| 2025 | 91.7% | 5.5 | 0.25 | 12 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 5.1 | 0.21 | 7 |
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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.