Buyer profile
How Office of Public Works (OPW) buys
Based on 1,408 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 Office of Public Works (OPW)'s 1,403 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 57% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 5 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
1,372 awards, €3078.5M of disclosed value
31 awards, €22.1M of disclosed value
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Office of Public Works (OPW)
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 97.8% of 1,408 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.1 bids per award (n=613) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.31 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.1
Average across 613 of 1,408 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.31
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 459 of 1,408 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
26.3%
161 of 613 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
3,808
Top supplier share: 60% across 221 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 689 of 1,408 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% | 3.4 | 0.50 | 41 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.3 | 0.50 | 8 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.2 | 0.40 | 14 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.58 | 15 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 8.8 | 0.60 | 32 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.42 | 75 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.31 | 56 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.38 | 71 |
| 2022 | 96.1% | 4.2 | 0.38 | 51 |
| 2023 | 82.5% | 3.0 | 0.37 | 57 |
| 2024 | 98.0% | 3.3 | 0.33 | 98 |
| 2025 | 92.7% | 6.4 | 0.24 | 82 |
| 2026 | 92.1% | 4.0 | 0.25 | 89 |
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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.