Buyer profile
How National Transport Authority buys
Based on 448 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 Transport Authority's 443 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 81% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 5 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
408 awards, €13872.3M of disclosed value
32 awards, €94.9M of disclosed value
3 awards, €15.4M of disclosed value
National Transport Authority
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 92.1% of 448 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.1 bids per award (n=315) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.33 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | National Transport Authority contract awards & winners → |
Sign in to unlock
Get 3 free lookups a month and a copy sent to your inbox.
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.1
Average across 315 of 448 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.33
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 265 of 448 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
29.2%
92 of 315 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
3,037
Top supplier share: 52.6% across 89 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 359 of 448 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 2 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.1 | 0.90 | 15 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 19 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.1 | 0.93 | 21 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.22 | 27 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.32 | 38 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 6.5 | 0.28 | 28 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 6.1 | 0.19 | 29 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 6.3 | 0.30 | 31 |
| 2023 | 94.4% | 5.7 | 0.51 | 36 |
| 2024 | 72.0% | 5.3 | 0.38 | 50 |
| 2025 | 69.2% | 7.1 | 0.15 | 39 |
| 2026 | 87.5% | 9.1 | 0.30 | 24 |
By sector
Sign in free above to unblur all 10 sector competition profiles ->
Get weekly alerts for National Transport Authority tenders
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.