Buyer profile
How The Higher Education Authority buys
Based on 30 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 Higher Education Authority's 30 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 73% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
30 awards, €2.8M of disclosed value
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The Higher Education Authority
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 30 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.4 bids per award (n=27) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.24 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | The Higher Education Authority contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.4
Average across 27 of 30 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.24
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 27 of 30 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
22.2%
6 of 27 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
3,850
Top supplier share: 55.7% across 11 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 28 of 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 100.0% | 9.0 | 0.14 | 4 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.42 | 5 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.50 | 5 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 2.3 | 0.50 | 3 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 8.8 | 0.26 | 4 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 7.7 | 0.15 | 7 |
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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.