Buyer profile
How National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) buys
Based on 337 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 Treasury Management Agency (NTMA)'s 337 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 48% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
331 awards, €686.8M of disclosed value
6 awards, €6.1M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.8
Average across 262 of 337 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.35
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 73 of 337 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 288 of 337 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 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | — | — | 4 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.0 | — | 13 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 5.7 | — | 29 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.8 | — | 43 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.2 | — | 17 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 6.2 | — | 18 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.8 | — | 48 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 5.8 | 0.33 | 41 |
| 2024 | 86.7% | 3.8 | 0.41 | 30 |
| 2025 | 92.6% | 4.4 | 0.23 | 27 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 0.34 | 16 |
By sector
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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.