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How National Shared Services Office buys

Based on 33 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 Shared Services Office's 33 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 61% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market100.0% of awards · 100.0% of value

33 awards, €217.7M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

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

0 awards

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Open-Market Procedure Share100.0% of 33 awards
Average Bids Received5.3 bids per award (n=27)
SME-Access Ratio0.15 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

5.3

Average across 27 of 33 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.15

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 26 of 33 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

14.8%

4 of 27 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

3,327

Top supplier share: 44.3% across 10 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 28 of 33 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2018100.0%6.70.073
2019100.0%2.50.402
2020100.0%3.50.332
2021100.0%5.00.183
2022100.0%6.70.156
2023100.0%6.80.134
2024100.0%6.00.133
2025100.0%2.50.002
2026100.0%4.00.003

By sector

IT Services100.0% open-market · 14 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 9 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Other100.0% 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 2026-10-02.