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How National Treatment Purchase Fund buys

Based on 31 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 Treatment Purchase Fund's 31 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 58% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market93.5% of awards · 99.6% of value

29 awards, €755.3M of disclosed value

Limited-competition6.5% of awards · 0.4% of value

2 awards, €3.2M of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.9

Average across 17 of 31 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.23

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 16 of 31 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 20 of 31 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%4.00.251
2019100.0%3.01.003
2020100.0%2.50.002
2021100.0%7.50.132
2022100.0%5.00.201
2023100.0%5.40.205
202450.0%8.00.132
202566.7%1.01.003
2026100.0%10.00.331

By sector

IT Services92.3% open-market · 13 awards
Professional Services90.9% open-market · 11 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 5 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 1 award
Education100.0% 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 2026-09-02.