Data story · TED award notices · Oct 2024 – Sep 2026
11,295 awards in Denmark went to 3,682 suppliers from October 2024 to September 2026. Of 3,682 winning suppliers, 61% won once. Their awards are 20% of the total. The top 1% of suppliers won 21% of the awards. The median across the 34 countries with a story is 18%.
The stated value is more concentrated than the awards here: 33% against 21% for the top 1%. No supplier won more than 5% of the awards. Gjensidige Forsikring won the most: 515.
- Awards
- 11,295
- Contract awards from Oct 2024 – Sep 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 3,682
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 61%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 21%
- Share of awards won by the 36 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.58
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
- Stated value (DKK)
- DKK 255 billion
- From the 53% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
- Top 1% by stated value
- 33%
- Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Denmark ranks 19th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 15th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (DKK) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gjensidige Forsikring | 515 | 5% | 2.18 billion | under 1% |
| 2 | CSL Behring AB | 111 | under 1% | 41.8 million | under 1% |
| 3 | Rambøll Danmark A/S | 102 | under 1% | 4.48 billion | 2% |
| 4 | Novartis Healthcare A/S | 99 | under 1% | 237 million | under 1% |
| 5 | Solveigs ved Peter Henningsen | 99 | under 1% | 211,765 | under 1% |
| 6 | Rambøll Danmark A/S | 95 | under 1% | 1.57 billion | under 1% |
| 7 | Peter Henningsen | 88 | under 1% | 9.86 million | under 1% |
| 8 | GJENSIDIGE FORSIKRING | 75 | under 1% | 655 million | under 1% |
| 9 | Novartis Healthcare A/S | 74 | under 1% | 616 million | under 1% |
| 10 | Vojens Taxi Service ApS | 72 | under 1% | 121 million | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (DKK) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amgros I/S | 1,323 | 12% | 13.3 billion | 5% |
| 2 | Kolding kommune | 505 | 4% | 425 million | under 1% |
| 3 | Københavns Kommune | 347 | 3% | 6.21 billion | 2% |
| 4 | Vejdirektoratet | 340 | 3% | 7.35 billion | 3% |
| 5 | GÉANT Vereniging | 312 | 3% | – | – |
| 6 | Region Hovedstaden | 287 | 3% | 5.16 billion | 2% |
| 7 | Banedanmark | 234 | 2% | 5.93 billion | 2% |
| 8 | Region Midtjylland | 215 | 2% | 7.47 billion | 3% |
| 9 | Aarhus Kommune | 195 | 2% | 4.04 billion | 2% |
| 10 | Staten og Kommunernes Indkøbsservice A/S | 193 | 2% | 3.27 billion | 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Sectors
6 sectors have 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Medical | 2,082 | 466 | 16% | 45% |
| Professional Services & Consulting | 1,419 | 618 | 23% | 72% |
| Transport & Logistics | 1,240 | 356 | 21% | 61% |
| IT & Software | 886 | 369 | 16% | 72% |
| Construction & Public Works | 772 | 381 | 8% | 70% |
| Facilities Management | 330 | 119 | 6% | 53% |
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 Denmark. 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 Denmark, 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.
- Stated value is the amount in the award notice, in DKK. It is often the ceiling of a framework agreement, and the money paid can be lower. When several winners share one notice and one amount, we split the amount. We cap each award at the 99.9th percentile of the awards in Denmark. 53% of the awards state an amount, DKK 255 billion in total.
- The awards for Denmark come from TED, which publishes contracts above the EU thresholds. This story describes the larger contracts.
- 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.