Buyer profile
How waterford-institute-of-technology buys
Based on 70 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 waterford-institute-of-technology's 70 contract awards placed through each procurement route, by award count and by awarded value. Value-weighting covers 26% of these awards (the share that disclosed a usable value); there are no qualification-system admissions to exclude.
70 awards, €16.2M of disclosed value
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| Open-Market Procedure Share | 100.0% of 70 awards |
| Average Bids Received | 1.3 bids per award (n=47) |
| SME-Access Ratio | 1.00 pooled SME win/bid ratio |
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Bids & SME access
Average bids per award
1.3
Average across 47 of 70 awards with a published bid count.
SME-access ratio
1.00
Pooled SME wins / SME bids, across 46 of 70 awards with published SME bid counts.
Single-bidder award rate
83%
39 of 47 bid-disclosed awards received 1 tender (OGP CC-BY 4.0).
Winner concentration (HHI)
2,560
Top supplier share: 33.8% across 5 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 51 of 70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 100.0% | 1.7 | 1.00 | 3 |
| 2015 | 100.0% | 1.2 | 1.00 | 17 |
| 2016 | 100.0% | 1.0 | 1.00 | 4 |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 1.4 | 1.00 | 11 |
| 2018 | 100.0% | 1.4 | 1.00 | 6 |
| 2019 | 100.0% | - | - | 1 |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 1.0 | - | 3 |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 1.3 | 1.00 | 6 |
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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.