Ranked view

Lowest open-market share

Contracting authorities ranked by the share of awarded value placed through open-market procedures, lowest first — i.e. the largest share routed through limited-competition or single-tender routes, as recorded in the OGP award data. Limited to authorities with at least 8 recorded awards and a disclosed award value.

#	Authority	Open-market (value)	Open-market (count)	Awards
1	department-of-education	0.0%	0.0%	17
2	The Teaching Council	30.7%	80.0%	15
3	an-coimisiun-pleanala	31.7%	22.2%	9
4	Peamount Healthcare	31.9%	77.8%	9
5	Housing Finance Agency plc	45.6%	72.7%	11
6	Office of the Government Chief Information Officer	52.8%	58.8%	34
7	Asiera CLG	53.6%	50.0%	25
8	Mercy University Hospital	54.5%	90.9%	11
9	National Gallery of Ireland	56.9%	77.8%	19
10	The Office of Government Procurement	62.8%	6.8%	1,264
11	Commission for Regulation of Utilities	64.3%	45.2%	62
12	Mental Health Commission	68.4%	44.4%	9
13	University College Cork	71.6%	67.3%	114
14	Avista CLG	74.6%	71.4%	23
15	Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority	74.9%	94.1%	34
16	Peter McVerry Trust	75.1%	91.7%	12
17	Department of Social Protection	78.6%	64.3%	84
18	University of Limerick	81.5%	71.7%	63
19	Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA)	86.1%	76.0%	25
20	SOLAS	86.3%	86.8%	53
21	St John of God Community Services clg	86.4%	38.8%	69
22	Commissioners of Irish Lights	88.8%	90.0%	10
23	Tusla Child and Family Agency	89.0%	90.9%	33
24	National Library of Ireland	89.6%	85.7%	14
25	Central Bank of Ireland	89.6%	27.6%	116
26	ombudsman-for-children-s-office	89.8%	79.2%	24
27	Department of Health	90.3%	90.0%	20
28	st-vincent-s-university-hospital	90.4%	73.1%	26
29	Department of Climate Energy and the Environment	90.6%	89.9%	89
30	Scoil Mhuire Community School (Clane)	91.0%	87.5%	8
31	Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)	91.4%	86.4%	134
32	Central Statistics Office	91.7%	87.5%	32
33	Wicklow County Council	92.1%	90.7%	97
34	Galway City Council	92.6%	83.5%	177
35	The Arts Council	93.2%	92.5%	53
36	Office of the Revenue Commissioners	93.2%	64.3%	57
37	Enterprise Ireland	93.3%	84.9%	69
38	Munster Technological University.	93.3%	94.7%	191
39	failte-ireland-national-tourism-development-authority	94.2%	86.9%	137
40	c-b-s-secondary-school-kilkenny	94.4%	92.9%	14

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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 on data.gov.ie. Rankings are recorded facts from the award data, not commentary. Generated 2026-06-27.