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	st-aidan-s-comprehensive-school	0.0%	90.9%	11
4	achilles-procurement-services-ltd-buyer	4.2%	66.7%	20
5	St. Patrick's Classical School	4.3%	83.3%	12
6	incorporated-orthopaedic-hospital-of-ireland	8.2%	90.0%	10
7	Asiera CLG	33.8%	73.6%	94
8	Peamount Healthcare	34.0%	90.0%	20
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	53.5%	64.7%	17
13	Housing Finance Agency plc	57.2%	87.5%	24
14	Office of the Government Chief Information Officer	60.2%	73.1%	52
15	St.Ciaran’s Community School (Kells)	63.8%	88.9%	9
16	st-mel-s-college-longford	64.7%	81.8%	11
17	st-mary-s-secondary-school-edenderry	65.1%	90.0%	10
18	The Office of Government Procurement	65.1%	9.8%	7,652
19	The Teaching Council	66.2%	93.2%	44
20	boyne-community-school	66.7%	88.9%	9
21	De La Salle College Dundalk	70.2%	90.9%	11
22	Mercy University Hospital	70.8%	96.4%	28
23	Uisce Éireann	72.8%	71.7%	245
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	76.8%	79.5%	176
27	east-glendalough-school	80.6%	87.5%	8
28	Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority	80.7%	98.5%	135
29	Department of Social Protection	82.7%	76.6%	321
30	pobalscoil-iosolde-palmerstown-community-school	82.8%	88.9%	9
31	Avista CLG	83.3%	76.1%	48
32	Mental Health Commission	84.8%	83.3%	30
33	Coolmine Community School (Clonsilla)	85.3%	92.3%	13
34	National Gallery of Ireland	85.6%	89.8%	62
35	An Coimisiún Pleanála	85.7%	77.4%	31
36	Office of the Revenue Commissioners	85.9%	87.2%	243
37	St. Louis Secondary School (Monaghan)	86.1%	88.9%	9
38	Stewarts Care Ltd.	86.1%	94.4%	18
39	st-marys-diocesan-school	86.2%	87.5%	8
40	data-protection-commission	87.5%	80.0%	10

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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 2026-11-02.