Council single-bid tender rate — 29 of 31 areas ranked
Many areas here are ranked on very few contracts with a recorded bid count — a rate based on 1 or 2 is not comparable to one based on hundreds, even though both display the same way. Treat a top-ranked figure with a low count in the "Awards counted" column with real caution.
This page ranks 29 of 31 areas at this level — the rest have a figure but too few observations to rank reliably.
Figures as of 2025, published by Office of Government Procurement — eTenders contract award notices. Accessed 2026-10-14.
Colour shows the share of each council's awarded tenders (with a recorded bid count) that had only one bid -- no competing offer. A small number of awards can make a small county's rate swing sharply; see each area's own figure for its underlying award count before comparing it to a larger county's.
Two or more areas with the same figure share a rank — the next rank is skipped (e.g. two areas tied for 1st means the next entry is ranked 3rd, not 2nd).
Before you use these figures
- Only years from 2023 shown: Recorded council award notices grew roughly a thousandfold between 2013 and 2024-2025 in this source, a reporting-compliance change (Circular 05/2023 made publishing award details over EUR25,000 mandatory), not a genuine rise in procurement activity — earlier years are not shown.
- Not every award has a recorded bid count: Checked directly: about a fifth of council-attributed awards from 2023 onward have no bids_received value published at all. This rate is calculated only over awards where a bid count WAS published — those with no bid count recorded are excluded from both the count of single-bid awards and the total they're measured against, not silently treated as having had more than one bid.
- A council can tender on behalf of its neighbours: Councils run joint regional frameworks, where one council is the contracting authority for several others, and the whole record — including its bid count — is published against the lead council. Read this figure as 'awarded through this council', not 'contracts this council alone ran'.
- Based on a small number of awards: A council's rate can be based on very few contracts with a recorded bid count across 2023-2025 — a small number of contracts can move a rate built on a small base by several percentage points. Where shown, the ranking page's own "Awards counted" column states each council's real base; check it before comparing directly against a larger council's rate.
- Winning bid only — no data on who competed: eTenders gives an aggregate count of bids received but never identifies a losing bidder anywhere in the published data. A single-bid figure shows how many offers were received, not who else considered competing.
- A different single-bid figure exists for this council: This is a per-calendar-year figure. StatsMapped's tender-awards pages for this council show a different single-bid percentage, calculated over the trailing 12 months from today rather than a fixed calendar year — the two measure the same underlying data over different windows and will not usually match.
- eTenders re-use terms: Source: Office of Government Procurement, eTenders contract award notices, re-used under CC-BY 4.0. Attribution required.
Cite this ranking:
Council single-bid tender rate, 29 of 31 areas ranked Caveats: Only years from 2023 shown; Not every award has a recorded bid count; A council can tender on behalf of its neighbours; Based on a small number of awards; Winning bid only — no data on who competed; A different single-bid figure exists for this council; eTenders re-use terms StatsMapped last confirmed these figures unchanged on 11 Oct 2026. Source: Office of Government Procurement — eTenders contract award notices https://statsmapped.com/ireland/rankings/etenders-single-bid-rate
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