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How Office of the Government Chief Information Officer buys

Based on 52 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 the Government Chief Information Officer's 52 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 87% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market73.1% of awards · 60.2% of value

38 awards, €94.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition26.9% of awards · 39.8% of value

14 awards, €62.5M of disclosed value

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

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Open-Market Procedure Share73.1% of 52 awards
Average Bids Received2.4 bids per award (n=16)
SME-Access Ratio0.48 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

2.4

Average across 16 of 52 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.48

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 16 of 52 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

31.2%

5 of 16 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

3,826

Top supplier share: 57% across 11 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 37 of 52 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2016100.0%3.50.502
2019100.0%4.00.292
2021100.0%2.01.001
2023100.0%1.0-3
202450.0%3.00.2916
202555.6%1.31.009
202650.0%2.51.004

By sector

IT Services68.2% open-market · 44 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 5 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 3 awards

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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.