Data story · TED award notices · Oct 2024 – Sep 2026
43,640 awards in Bulgaria went to 6,807 suppliers from October 2024 to September 2026. 57% of the 6,807 suppliers won two or more awards. Bulgaria is above the median: the top 1% of suppliers won 29%, against 18% in the median country (34 countries).
Value numbers need an amount on 40% of the awards or more. Here 30% have one, so the story shows counts only. The largest supplier, СОФАРМА ТРЕЙДИНГ АД, won 992 awards (2%).
- Awards
- 43,640
- Contract awards from Oct 2024 – Sep 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 6,807
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 43%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 29%
- Share of awards won by the 68 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.71
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Most awards here give no amount: 30% do. Below 40% we show no value numbers.
Bulgaria ranks 3rd of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 8th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | СОФАРМА ТРЕЙДИНГ АД | 992 | 2% |
| 2 | ФЬОНИКС Фарма ЕООД | 860 | 2% |
| 3 | ДАНСОН ТРЕЙДИНГ ООД | 814 | 2% |
| 4 | МЕДЕКС ООД | 452 | 1% |
| 5 | ФАРКОЛ АД | 417 | under 1% |
| 6 | Кооперация ПАНДА | 371 | under 1% |
| 7 | Търговска Лига - Глобален Аптечен Център АД | 359 | under 1% |
| 8 | МЕДИЦИНСКА ТЕХНИКА ИНЖЕНЕРИНГ ООД | 341 | under 1% |
| 9 | СОЛОМЕД ЕООД | 321 | under 1% |
| 10 | РСР ЕООД | 309 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКА МНОГОПРОФИЛНА БОЛНИЦА ЗА АКТИВНО ЛЕЧЕНИЕ "СВЕТИ ГЕОРГИ" ЕАД | 888 | 2% |
| 2 | ОБЩИНА БУРГАС | 836 | 2% |
| 3 | МЕДИЦИНСКИ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ | 688 | 2% |
| 4 | СТОЛИЧНА ОБЩИНА | 580 | 1% |
| 5 | ТЕЦ МАРИЦА ИЗТОК 2 ЕАД | 532 | 1% |
| 6 | ОБЩИНА ВАРНА | 500 | 1% |
| 7 | Военномедицинска академия | 487 | 1% |
| 8 | МЕДИЦИНСКИ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ-ВАРНА "ПРОФ. Д-Р ПАРАСКЕВ ИВ.СТОЯНОВ" | 465 | 1% |
| 9 | Електроразпределителни мрежи Запад ЕАД | 462 | 1% |
| 10 | АГЕНЦИЯ "ПЪТНА ИНФРАСТРУКТУРА" | 443 | 1% |
No value columns: 30% of these awards state an amount.
Sectors
One sector has 300 or more awards and 50 or more suppliers in the window, and a sector page. Each row links to that page, where the sector has its own numbers, charts and tables.
| CPV sector | Awards | Winning suppliers | Top 1% of suppliers | Won one award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facilities Management | 485 | 197 | 7% | 61% |
CPV sector: the sector of the award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Our keyword sector labels elsewhere on the site can give other counts.
How we counted
- TED award notices for Bulgaria. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- October 2024 to September 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for Bulgaria, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- Each award has the CPV code of its notice. Each award counts in one sector only, by the strict CPV rules of the ART-1 audit. We do not use our keyword sector labels: a hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors.
- We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
- We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
- 30% of these awards state an amount. Our floor is 40%, so this story shows counts only.
- TED lists contracts above the EU thresholds. Smaller contracts are not in these numbers.
- These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.
The method is the method of our study of 39 countries: who wins government contracts. Other countries: who wins, country by country. The sector pages show the same numbers for each country and sector with enough data.
Snapshot 9 October 2026. Awards from October 2024 to September 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.