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How Road Safety Authority (RSA) buys

Based on 123 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 Road Safety Authority (RSA)'s 123 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 75% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market95.9% of awards · 99.9% of value

118 awards, €1569.7M of disclosed value

Limited-competition4.1% of awards · 0.1% of value

5 awards, €1.5M of disclosed value

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

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Open-Market Procedure Share95.9% of 123 awards
Average Bids Received4.8 bids per award (n=78)
SME-Access Ratio0.40 pooled SME win/bid ratio
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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.8

Average across 78 of 123 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.40

Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 48 of 123 awards with published SME bid counts.

Single-bidder award rate

16.7%

13 of 78 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).

Winner concentration (HHI)

6,153

Top supplier share: 78.1% across 29 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 97 of 123 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2013100.0%2.00.001
2014100.0%4.50.402
2015100.0%3.00.237
2016100.0%2.8-5
2017100.0%5.70.5010
2018100.0%2.30.339
2019100.0%4.50.2510
2020100.0%10.30.3710
2021100.0%4.60.349
2022100.0%6.00.754
2023100.0%4.00.293
2024100.0%6.30.387
202572.2%3.31.0018
2026100.0%5.50.172

By sector

Professional Services92.9% open-market · 56 awards
IT Services100.0% open-market · 32 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 12 awards
Other100.0% open-market · 9 awards
Transport87.5% open-market · 8 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 1 award
Environment100.0% 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.