Buyer profile
How Ombudsman for Children's Office buys
Based on 50 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 50 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 50% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
45 awards, €3.3M of disclosed value
4 awards, €210k of disclosed value
1 award, €140k of disclosed value
Ombudsman for Children's Office
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 90.0% of 50 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.9 bids per award (n=13) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.18 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.9
Average across 13 of 50 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.18
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 8 of 50 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
0%
0 of 13 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,621
Top supplier share: 25.2% across 8 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 25 of 50 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 |
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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.