Buyer profile
How Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland buys
Based on 267 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 Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's 267 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 60% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
267 awards, €2700.3M of disclosed value
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Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 267 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 9.3 bids per award (n=241) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.37 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
9.3
Average across 241 of 267 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.37
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 50 of 267 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
11.6%
28 of 241 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
4,478
Top supplier share: 47.3% across 51 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 243 of 267 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 100.0% | 11.3 | - | 4 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 9.8 | - | 26 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 10.1 | - | 19 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 8.9 | - | 19 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 9.3 | 0.36 | 13 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 12.3 | 0.50 | 19 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 9.8 | 0.11 | 27 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 8.6 | - | 14 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 5.2 | - | 24 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 7.3 | - | 16 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 12.3 | 0.80 | 19 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 6.6 | 0.24 | 18 |
| 2025 | 100.0% | 8.7 | 0.38 | 16 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 15.3 | 0.50 | 9 |
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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.