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How The Office of Government Procurement buys

Based on 1,264 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 1,260 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 91% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market 6.8% of awards · 62.8% of value

85 awards , €4477.6M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 93.3% of awards · 37.2% of value

1,175 awards , €2647.9M of disclosed value

Single-tender 0.0% of awards · 0.0% of value

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Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

8.5

Average across 71 of 1,264 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.61

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 70 of 1,264 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 1,239 of 1,264 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
2024 6.3% 8.8 0.59 631
2025 6.4% 8.4 0.64 501
2026 1.9% 5.0 0.50 107

By sector

IT Services 2.3% open-market · 487 awards
Professional Services 5.5% open-market · 423 awards
Other 11.7% open-market · 197 awards
Environment 3.6% open-market · 83 awards
Facilities 8.3% open-market · 24 awards
Defence 27.8% open-market · 18 awards
Transport 61.5% open-market · 13 awards
Construction 10.0% open-market · 10 awards
Healthcare 100.0% open-market · 8 awards
Education 100.0% 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 on data.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 2026-06-27.