Buyer profile
How Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) buys
Based on 280 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 Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)'s 276 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.
223 awards, €16404.3M of disclosed value
53 awards, €119.4M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
6.0
Average across 165 of 280 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.42
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 97 of 280 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 235 of 280 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.25 | 1 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 7.2 | 0.27 | 9 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 10.1 | 0.25 | 9 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.48 | 26 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.32 | 25 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 10.5 | 0.55 | 21 |
| 2021 | 94.1% | 5.2 | 0.40 | 17 |
| 2022 | 56.8% | 4.9 | 0.35 | 37 |
| 2023 | 58.1% | 4.7 | 0.47 | 31 |
| 2024 | 41.9% | 5.3 | 0.50 | 31 |
| 2025 | 83.3% | 5.8 | 0.46 | 24 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.60 | 4 |
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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 2026-08-02.