Buyer profile
How Tusla Child and Family Agency buys
Based on 60 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 Tusla Child and Family Agency's 60 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 73% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
57 awards, €573.4M of disclosed value
3 awards, €9.2M of disclosed value
0 awards
Tusla Child and Family Agency
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 95.0% of 60 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.5 bids per award (n=32) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.35 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
| Full Authority Awards & Spend | Tusla Child and Family Agency contract awards & winners → |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.5
Average across 32 of 60 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.35
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 19 of 60 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
25%
8 of 32 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
6,093
Top supplier share: 76.5% across 17 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 35 of 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 100.0% | 19.0 | - | 1 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 29.0 | - | 1 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.86 | 10 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.25 | 4 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 2.0 | 0.25 | 4 |
| 2025 | 70.0% | 5.3 | 0.42 | 10 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 6.4 | 0.17 | 5 |
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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.