Buyer profile
How University College Dublin ( UCD ) buys
Based on 667 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 Dublin ( UCD )'s 666 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 45% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 1 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
661 awards, €1388.4M of disclosed value
5 awards, €12.2M of disclosed value
0 awards
University College Dublin ( UCD )
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 99.3% of 667 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 3.9 bids per award (n=296) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.46 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
3.9
Average across 296 of 667 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.46
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 175 of 667 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
22%
65 of 296 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,021
Top supplier share: 21% across 93 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 310 of 667 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 | - | 3 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 4.7 | 0.33 | 15 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 6.0 | 0.22 | 2 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.29 | 26 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.3 | 0.20 | 20 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 4.2 | 0.21 | 12 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 3.8 | 0.27 | 6 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.17 | 20 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 4.4 | 0.55 | 51 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 3.9 | 0.55 | 34 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 3.2 | 0.55 | 59 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 4.0 | 0.85 | 11 |
| 2025 | 86.2% | 4.3 | 0.42 | 29 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.47 | 22 |
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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.