Buyer profile
How Uisce Éireann buys
Based on 245 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 Uisce Éireann's 219 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 62% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 26 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
157 awards, €37573.8M of disclosed value
5 awards, €134.0M of disclosed value
57 awards, €13899.7M of disclosed value
Uisce Éireann
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 71.7% of 245 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 15.6 bids per award (n=57) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.21 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
15.6
Average across 57 of 245 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.21
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 11 of 245 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
3.5%
2 of 57 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
2,041
Top supplier share: 34% 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 109 of 245 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 100.0% | - | - | 12 |
| 2019 | 90.9% | 4.3 | - | 22 |
| 2020 | 66.7% | 9.3 | - | 15 |
| 2021 | 38.5% | 10.8 | - | 13 |
| 2022 | 50.0% | 52.4 | 0.21 | 9 |
| 2023 | 33.3% | 10.7 | - | 22 |
| 2024 | 28.6% | 6.2 | 0.33 | 7 |
| 2025 | 80.0% | 18.0 | 0.33 | 5 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 15.5 | 0.11 | 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 2026-11-02.