Buyer profile
How Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin buys
Based on 645 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 Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin's 643 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 43% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 2 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
626 awards, €683.0M of disclosed value
17 awards, €5.5M of disclosed value
0 awards
Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 97.4% of 645 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.8 bids per award (n=319) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.42 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.8
Average across 319 of 645 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.42
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 269 of 645 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
24.5%
78 of 319 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
465
Top supplier share: 13.9% across 137 distinct winners (framework-deduplicated).
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 338 of 645 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% | 9.0 | - | 2 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 6.2 | 0.71 | 6 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 5.3 | 1.00 | 4 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.50 | 15 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 6.1 | 0.63 | 15 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.78 | 8 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 5.4 | 0.41 | 39 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.36 | 43 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.9 | 0.28 | 27 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 5.0 | 0.46 | 27 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.1 | 0.45 | 37 |
| 2024 | 95.5% | 3.5 | 0.24 | 22 |
| 2025 | 94.3% | 6.3 | 0.48 | 35 |
| 2026 | 77.6% | 3.0 | 0.37 | 58 |
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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 2026-11-02.