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	commission-for-communications-regulation-comreg	0.0%	0.0%	60
2	department-of-education	0.0%	0.0%	29
3	incorporated-orthopaedic-hospital-of-ireland	0.0%	88.9%	9
4	De La Salle College Dundalk	0.0%	90.0%	10
5	achilles-procurement-services-ltd-buyer	4.2%	66.7%	20
6	Peamount Healthcare	31.9%	88.2%	17
7	Asiera CLG	32.6%	76.8%	87
8	presentation-college-athenry	37.0%	87.5%	8
9	edmund-rice-college-dublin	40.6%	88.9%	9
10	the-children-s-sunshine-home	44.3%	55.6%	9
11	Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority	53.0%	70.0%	10
12	Housing Finance Agency plc	57.2%	87.5%	24
13	Office of the Government Chief Information Officer	60.0%	72.5%	51
14	st-ciarans-community-school-kells	63.8%	87.5%	8
15	st-mary-s-secondary-school-edenderry	65.1%	90.0%	10
16	The Office of Government Procurement	65.1%	10.0%	7,411
17	The Teaching Council	65.7%	92.9%	42
18	boyne-community-school	66.7%	88.9%	9
19	St. Louis Secondary School (Monaghan)	67.3%	87.5%	8
20	Mercy University Hospital	70.2%	96.3%	27
21	uisce-eireann	71.7%	70.0%	233
22	mercy-secondary-school-ballymahon	73.5%	87.5%	8
23	Commission for Regulation of Utilities	77.2%	79.6%	167
24	Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority	80.5%	98.5%	134
25	east-glendalough-school	80.6%	87.5%	8
26	Avista CLG	80.8%	73.8%	44
27	an-coimisiun-pleanala	83.5%	76.7%	30
28	National Gallery of Ireland	83.7%	90.4%	55
29	Mental Health Commission	83.9%	82.1%	28
30	Department of Social Protection	85.2%	77.8%	297
31	Coolmine Community School (Clonsilla)	86.5%	91.7%	12
32	moyne-community-school	89.3%	87.5%	8
33	COPE Foundation	89.3%	92.7%	42
34	St John of God Community Services clg	89.4%	58.4%	143
35	ombudsman-for-children-s-office	89.8%	89.6%	48
36	novas	90.2%	91.3%	23
37	data-protection-commission	90.9%	88.9%	9
38	Scoil Mhuire Community School (Clane)	91.0%	88.9%	9
39	De La Salle College (Waterford City)	91.2%	81.8%	11
40	corporate-enforcement-authority	92.0%	85.7%	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 ondata.gov.ie. Rankings are recorded facts from the award data, not commentary. Generated 2026-08-02.