Buyer profile
How Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) buys
Based on 436 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 Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)'s 416 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 61% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 20 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
377 awards, €221.3M of disclosed value
3 awards, €10.0M of disclosed value
36 awards, €1.8M of disclosed value
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.2
Average across 205 of 436 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.34
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 151 of 436 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 274 of 436 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% | 2.3 | 1.00 | 3 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 5.5 | 0.24 | 10 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.33 | 3 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 7.3 | 0.47 | 3 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.9 | — | 10 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.00 | 2 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 3.9 | 0.30 | 23 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.75 | 11 |
| 2021 | 72.0% | 3.1 | 0.29 | 25 |
| 2022 | 80.7% | 3.8 | 0.37 | 57 |
| 2023 | 92.5% | 4.3 | 0.32 | 53 |
| 2024 | 64.9% | 4.1 | 0.37 | 37 |
| 2025 | 92.6% | 4.5 | 0.32 | 27 |
| 2026 | 80.0% | 6.3 | 0.37 | 10 |
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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 2026-09-02.