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How Port of Cork Company buys

Based on 51 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 Port of Cork Company's 51 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 65% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market100.0% of awards · 100.0% of value

51 awards, €230.8M of disclosed value

Limited-competition0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

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

0 awards

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Port of Cork Company

Open-Market Procedure Share100.0% of 51 awards
Average Bids Received4.7 bids per award (n=15)
SME-Access Ratio0.33 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.7

Average across 15 of 51 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.33

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 5 of 51 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

26.7%

4 of 15 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

9,176

Top supplier share: 95.7% across 2 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 20 of 51 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2015100.0%--1
2016100.0%1.01.006
2018100.0%1.0-1
2019100.0%8.0-2
2023100.0%5.7-8
2026100.0%5.00.112

By sector

Construction100.0% open-market · 17 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 16 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 7 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 5 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 5 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 1 award

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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.