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How Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) buys

Based on 134 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 118 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 95% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 16 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market 86.4% of awards · 91.4% of value

102 awards , €110.5M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 1.7% of awards · 8.2% of value

2 awards , €9.9M of disclosed value

Single-tender 11.9% of awards · 0.4% of value

14 awards , €501k of disclosed value

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.9

Average across 33 of 134 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.33

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 33 of 134 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 69 of 134 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 64.9% 4.1 0.37 37
2025 92.6% 4.5 0.32 27
2026 80.0% 9.3 0.29 5

By sector

Other 77.5% open-market · 43 awards
Professional Services 97.0% open-market · 38 awards
IT Services 89.5% open-market · 21 awards
Construction 88.9% open-market · 9 awards
Healthcare 100.0% open-market · 7 awards
Education 66.7% open-market · 5 awards
Defence 66.7% open-market · 4 awards
Transport 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Facilities 66.7% open-market · 3 awards

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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.