Buyer profile
How The Office of Government Procurement buys
Based on 7,516 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 Office of Government Procurement's 7,493 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); 23 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
742 awards, €16066.5M of disclosed value
6,751 awards, €8554.9M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
8.5
Average across 643 of 7,516 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.53
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 601 of 7,516 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 7,307 of 7,516 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% | 3.0 | 1.00 | 4 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.2 | 0.43 | 10 |
| 2015 | 56.2% | 6.3 | 0.36 | 105 |
| 2016 | 51.4% | 9.8 | 0.49 | 210 |
| 2017 | 16.9% | 8.8 | 0.51 | 662 |
| 2018 | 9.0% | 10.5 | 0.58 | 613 |
| 2019 | 3.7% | 6.0 | 0.51 | 1,610 |
| 2020 | 4.8% | 8.6 | 0.57 | 725 |
| 2021 | 9.5% | 11.7 | 0.56 | 651 |
| 2022 | 5.5% | 7.5 | 0.58 | 690 |
| 2023 | 4.8% | 6.2 | 0.56 | 683 |
| 2024 | 6.3% | 8.8 | 0.59 | 631 |
| 2025 | 6.4% | 8.4 | 0.64 | 501 |
| 2026 | 1.9% | 5.8 | 0.39 | 212 |
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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.