Buyer profile
How The Department of Enterprise Tourism and Employment buys
Based on 259 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 The Department of Enterprise Tourism and Employment's 259 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 49% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
253 awards, €45.8M of disclosed value
6 awards, €1.8M of disclosed value
0 awards
The Department of Enterprise Tourism and Employment
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 97.7% of 259 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.5 bids per award (n=132) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.25 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.5
Average across 132 of 259 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.25
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 109 of 259 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
15.2%
20 of 132 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,224
Top supplier share: 31.4% across 39 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 141 of 259 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% | 2.7 | 0.50 | 3 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.9 | 0.35 | 9 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 7.3 | 0.17 | 4 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.9 | 0.34 | 12 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.25 | 16 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.27 | 10 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.42 | 12 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 6.6 | 0.11 | 9 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.42 | 10 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 0.29 | 12 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 5.2 | 0.23 | 11 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 6.5 | 0.25 | 2 |
| 2025 | 84.2% | 4.8 | 0.17 | 19 |
| 2026 | 75.0% | 5.0 | 0.22 | 12 |
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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.