Buyer profile
How University of Galway (ID 1400) buys
Based on 504 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 of Galway (ID 1400)'s 495 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 55% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 9 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
466 awards, €920.8M of disclosed value
29 awards, €10.3M of disclosed value
0 awards
University of Galway (ID 1400)
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 94.1% of 504 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 4.0 bids per award (n=337) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.48 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
4.0
Average across 337 of 504 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.48
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 269 of 504 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
25.2%
85 of 337 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
732
Top supplier share: 15.5% across 112 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 380 of 504 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% | 2.7 | - | 12 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 4.5 | 0.37 | 22 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 2.8 | 0.46 | 22 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.7 | 0.84 | 27 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.58 | 21 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.9 | 0.59 | 20 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 4.6 | 0.38 | 25 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 4.8 | 0.49 | 32 |
| 2021 | 79.5% | 4.5 | 0.46 | 44 |
| 2022 | 90.2% | 5.7 | 0.40 | 41 |
| 2023 | 65.8% | 4.0 | 0.52 | 41 |
| 2024 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.68 | 35 |
| 2025 | 96.3% | 4.4 | 0.35 | 27 |
| 2026 | 90.9% | 3.5 | 0.33 | 11 |
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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.