Buyer profile
How University of Limerick buys
Based on 300 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 Limerick's 296 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 50% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); 4 qualification-system admissions (DPS / UQS) are reported separately and excluded from this mix.
277 awards, €247.2M of disclosed value
19 awards, €5.2M of disclosed value
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University of Limerick
| Open-Market Procedure Share | 93.6% of 300 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 5.0 bids per award (n=209) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 0.41 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
5.0
Average across 209 of 300 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
0.41
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 179 of 300 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
24.4%
51 of 209 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
1,167
Top supplier share: 24.9% across 67 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 256 of 300 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% | 2.6 | 0.40 | 8 |
| 2014 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.34 | 33 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 3.9 | 0.23 | 29 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 2.4 | 0.56 | 21 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 3.6 | 0.29 | 11 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 2.7 | 0.66 | 21 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 3.4 | 0.22 | 9 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 11.6 | 0.22 | 11 |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 17.7 | 0.79 | 14 |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 6.1 | 0.71 | 17 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 5.8 | 0.27 | 21 |
| 2024 | 73.3% | 3.8 | 0.41 | 15 |
| 2025 | 51.6% | 3.1 | 0.35 | 31 |
| 2026 | 100.0% | 3.5 | 0.39 | 15 |
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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.