Buyer profile
How Office of the Ombudsman buys
Based on 35 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 Ombudsman's 35 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 43% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
35 awards, €5.0M of disclosed value
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| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 35 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.2 bids per award (n=24) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.28 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.2
Average across 24 of 35 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.28
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 15 of 35 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
20.8%
5 of 24 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
5,470
Top supplier share: 71.9% across 4 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 24 of 35 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% | 3.3 | 0.25 | 3 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 2.2 | 0.43 | 5 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 5.2 | 0.17 | 5 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 5.6 | 0.25 | 5 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.33 | 1 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 6.0 | - | 1 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.20 | 2 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.40 | 2 |
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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.