Buyer profile
How Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) buys
Based on 449 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 428 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 63% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 21 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
388 awards, €226.1M of disclosed value
4 awards, €10.1M of disclosed value
36 awards, €1.8M of disclosed value
Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 90.6% of 449 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.1 bids per award (n=209) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.34 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.1
Average across 209 of 449 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.34
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 155 of 449 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
17.7%
37 of 209 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,214
Top supplier share: 25.7% 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 279 of 449 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 | 0.38 | 57 |
| 2023 | 92.5% | 4.3 | 0.32 | 53 |
| 2024 | 64.9% | 4.1 | 0.37 | 37 |
| 2025 | 92.6% | 4.5 | 0.33 | 27 |
| 2026 | 80.0% | 5.1 | 0.38 | 15 |
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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.