Buyer profile
How South Dublin County Council buys
Based on 702 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 South Dublin County Council's 700 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 48% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 2 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
700 awards, €1645.0M of disclosed value
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South Dublin County Council
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 702 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.3 bids per award (n=519) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.46 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.3
Average across 519 of 702 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.46
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 504 of 702 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
30.4%
158 of 519 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
404
Top supplier share: 13.6% across 148 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 535 of 702 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.
| Year | Open-market (count) | Avg bids | SME access | Dated awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 5 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.2 | 0.97 | 26 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.9 | 0.68 | 14 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.54 | 59 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.44 | 47 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.36 | 64 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 7.1 | 0.42 | 59 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.39 | 40 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 4.7 | 0.40 | 47 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.43 | 38 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.38 | 56 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.48 | 49 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 8.2 | 0.58 | 31 |
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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.