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How Trinity College Dublin the University of Dublin buys

Based on 122 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 120 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 98% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 2 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.

Open-market 97.5% of awards · 96.9% of value

117 awards , €138.8M of disclosed value

Limited-competition 2.5% of awards · 3.1% of value

3 awards , €4.5M of disclosed value

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

0 awards

Bids & SME access

Average bids per award

4.8

Average across 62 of 122 awards with a published bid count.

SME-access ratio

0.43

Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 57 of 122 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 65 of 122 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 95.7% 3.4 0.25 23
2025 94.3% 6.3 0.48 35
2026 100.0% 2.4 0.44 7

By sector

Other 100.0% open-market · 48 awards
Professional Services 100.0% open-market · 26 awards
Construction 100.0% open-market · 13 awards
IT Services 91.7% open-market · 12 awards
Environment 71.4% open-market · 7 awards
Facilities 100.0% open-market · 5 awards
Healthcare 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Transport 100.0% open-market · 4 awards
Defence 100.0% open-market · 3 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 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.