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%	29
2	colaiste-chiarain-athlone	0.0%	83.3%	12
3	incorporated-orthopaedic-hospital-of-ireland	0.0%	88.9%	9
4	st-aidan-s-comprehensive-school	0.0%	90.9%	11
5	achilles-procurement-services-ltd-buyer	4.2%	66.7%	20
6	St. Patrick's Classical School	4.3%	83.3%	12
7	Peamount Healthcare	32.7%	88.9%	18
8	Asiera CLG	33.9%	77.1%	90
9	presentation-college-athenry	37.0%	87.5%	8
10	edmund-rice-college-dublin	40.6%	88.9%	9
11	the-children-s-sunshine-home	44.3%	55.6%	9
12	Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority	49.5%	61.5%	13
13	Housing Finance Agency plc	57.2%	87.5%	24
14	Office of the Government Chief Information Officer	60.0%	72.5%	51
15	St.Ciaran’s Community School (Kells)	63.8%	87.5%	8
16	st-mel-s-college-longford	64.7%	77.8%	9
17	st-mary-s-secondary-school-edenderry	65.1%	90.0%	10
18	The Office of Government Procurement	65.3%	9.9%	7,516
19	The Teaching Council	66.0%	93.0%	43
20	boyne-community-school	66.7%	88.9%	9
21	Mercy University Hospital	70.2%	96.3%	27
22	De La Salle College Dundalk	70.2%	90.9%	11
23	Uisce Éireann	72.5%	71.0%	240
24	mercy-secondary-school-ballymahon	73.5%	87.5%	8
25	hartstown-community-school	74.0%	88.9%	9
26	Commission for Regulation of Utilities	76.4%	79.2%	173
27	east-glendalough-school	80.6%	87.5%	8
28	Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority	80.7%	98.5%	135
29	Avista CLG	82.7%	75.6%	47
30	pobalscoil-iosolde-palmerstown-community-school	82.8%	88.9%	9
31	an-coimisiun-pleanala	83.5%	76.7%	30
32	Department of Social Protection	83.6%	77.3%	308
33	Mental Health Commission	83.9%	82.1%	28
34	National Gallery of Ireland	84.8%	90.9%	58
35	Office of the Revenue Commissioners	85.5%	87.3%	237
36	stewarts-care-ltd	85.9%	94.1%	17
37	St. Louis Secondary School (Monaghan)	86.1%	88.9%	9
38	The Coombe Hospital	86.1%	92.3%	26
39	st-marys-diocesan-school	86.2%	87.5%	8
40	Coolmine Community School (Clonsilla)	87.0%	92.3%	13

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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. Rankings are recorded facts from the award data, not commentary. Generated 2026-09-03.