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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.

Open-market80.8% of awards · 99.3% of value

223 awards, €16404.3M of disclosed value

Limited-competition19.2% of awards · 0.7% of value

53 awards, €119.4M of disclosed value

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

YearOpen-market (count)Avg bidsSME accessDated awards
2015100.0%4.00.251
2016100.0%7.20.279
2017100.0%10.10.259
2018100.0%4.60.4826
2019100.0%4.60.3225
2020100.0%10.50.5521
202194.1%5.20.4017
202256.8%4.90.3537
202358.1%4.70.4731
202441.9%5.30.5031
202583.3%5.80.4624
2026100.0%4.80.604

By sector

Professional Services94.7% open-market · 116 awards
Construction85.1% open-market · 48 awards
Other21.7% open-market · 46 awards
IT Services87.5% open-market · 32 awards
Transport100.0% open-market · 27 awards
Facilities100.0% open-market · 6 awards
Healthcare100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Environment100.0% open-market · 2 awards
Education100.0% 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 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.