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How Tipperary County Council buys

Based on 657 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 Tipperary County Council's 657 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 37% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.

Open-market95.4% of awards · 99.6% of value

627 awards, €940.6M of disclosed value

Limited-competition4.6% of awards · 0.4% of value

30 awards, €3.8M of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.2

Average across 497 of 657 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.38

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 482 of 657 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 552 of 657 awards that carry a published date. The open-market share here therefore rests on this dated subset.

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2014100.0%1.01.003
2015100.0%1.01.005
2016100.0%1.01.003
2017100.0%1.11.0033
2018100.0%1.80.8842
2019100.0%4.00.4248
2020100.0%4.60.2366
2021100.0%4.30.3288
2022100.0%4.30.3875
202390.9%6.20.4555
202471.4%3.80.3963
202589.1%6.50.3546
202692.0%4.80.3225

By sector

Construction93.5% open-market · 354 awards
Professional Services96.8% open-market · 158 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 44 awards
Other95.5% open-market · 22 awards
IT Services95.0% open-market · 20 awards
Education100.0% open-market · 16 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 13 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 12 awards
Defence100.0% open-market · 10 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 8 awards

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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.