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How Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUSMM) buys

Based on 121 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 of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUSMM)'s 121 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 76% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market98.4% of awards · 99.9% of value

119 awards, €184.1M of disclosed value

Limited-competition1.7% of awards · 0.1% of value

2 awards, €111k of disclosed value

Single-tender0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

3.6

Average across 67 of 121 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.43

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 66 of 121 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 82 of 121 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2021100.0%3.00.334
2022100.0%3.00.3712
2023100.0%4.30.3021
2024100.0%3.30.6416
2025100.0%4.00.419
202695.0%3.50.4820

By sector

Other97.9% open-market · 47 awards
Professional Services100.0% open-market · 19 awards
Construction100.0% open-market · 18 awards
IT Services93.8% open-market · 16 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 7 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 3 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 1 award
Environment100.0% open-market · 1 award

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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 2026-09-03.