Buyer profile
How ombudsman-for-children-s-office buys
Based on 48 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 ombudsman-for-children-s-office's 48 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.
43 awards, €3.1M of disclosed value
4 awards, €210k of disclosed value
1 award, €140k of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.9
Average across 13 of 48 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.18
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 8 of 48 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 25 of 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 100.0% | 5.5 | — | 2 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 4.7 | — | 3 |
| 2024 | 71.4% | 6.5 | 0.18 | 7 |
| 2025 | 76.9% | 6.5 | 0.18 | 13 |
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.