Buyer profile
How University College Cork buys
Based on 664 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 University College Cork's 663 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 34% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
626 awards, €601.7M of disclosed value
37 awards, €17.0M of disclosed value
0 awards
Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.5
Average across 472 of 664 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.44
Pooled SME wins ÷ SME bids, across 444 of 664 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 519 of 664 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% | 2.0 | — | 1 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 2.5 | 0.43 | 20 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 4.2 | 0.45 | 42 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.47 | 53 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 2.6 | 0.44 | 46 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.41 | 64 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.41 | 42 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.5 | 0.36 | 22 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 5.4 | 0.25 | 23 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.52 | 53 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.55 | 55 |
| 2024 | 85.7% | 2.3 | 0.48 | 21 |
| 2025 | 54.7% | 2.6 | 0.41 | 53 |
| 2026 | 58.3% | 3.0 | 0.36 | 24 |
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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.