Buyer profile
How st-james-s-hospital buys
Based on 75 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 st-james-s-hospital's 75 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 100% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
73 awards , €312.7M of disclosed value
0 awards
2 awards , €2.6M of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.5
Average across 33 of 75 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.26
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 32 of 75 awards with published SME bid counts.
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 39 of 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.23 | 16 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 3.3 | 0.29 | 20 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.33 | 3 |
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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 on data.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 2026-06-27.