Data story · SERCOP award notices · Jan 2025 – Oct 2026
5,736 awards in Ecuador went to 3,601 suppliers from January 2025 to October 2026. Most suppliers in Ecuador won one award in the window: 75% of 3,601. The top 1% of suppliers (36) won 11% of the awards, and the top 10% won 33%.
By number of awards, the top 1% hold 11%. By stated value, the top 1% hold 35%. The largest supplier, COMPAÑIA GENERAL DE COMERCIO COGECOMSA S. A., won 137 awards (2%).
- Awards
- 5,736
- Contract awards from Jan 2025 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 3,601
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 75%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 11%
- Share of awards won by the 36 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.32
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
- Stated value (USD)
- USD 902 million
- From the 100% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
- Top 1% by stated value
- 35%
- Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.
This is a 22-month window: our data for Ecuador starts in January 2025. Concentration grows with the length of the window, so compare these shares with care.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Ecuador ranks 49th of 51 countries for the Gini coefficient and 47th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (USD) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | COMPAÑIA GENERAL DE COMERCIO COGECOMSA S. A. | 137 | 2% | 5,906 | under 1% |
| 2 | ASEGURADORA DEL SUR C. A. | 40 | under 1% | 2.82 million | under 1% |
| 3 | CORPORACION NACIONAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES | 36 | under 1% | 38.2 million | 4% |
| 4 | COOPERATIVA DE PRODUCCION AGRICOLA, GANADERA Y SERVICIOS DE ALIMENTACION PARA VIVIR MEJOR PROGRASERVIV | 32 | under 1% | 224,826 | under 1% |
| 5 | Empresa Pública de hidrocarburos del Ecuador EP PETROECUADOR | 24 | under 1% | 17.0 million | 2% |
| 6 | IASA S.A. | 19 | under 1% | 5.48 million | under 1% |
| 7 | ALVAREZ LARREA EQUIPOS MEDICOS ALEM CIA. LTDA. | 16 | under 1% | 3.94 million | under 1% |
| 8 | PRODUCTOS Y DISTRIBUCIONES MEDICAS ANDINO PRODIMEDA CIA. LTDA. | 16 | under 1% | 625,055 | under 1% |
| 9 | ACRETI S.A. | 15 | under 1% | 555,991 | under 1% |
| 10 | SIMED S. A. | 14 | under 1% | 596,100 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (USD) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOBIERNO AUTONOMO DESCENTRALIZADO MUNICIPAL DEL CANTON CUENCA | 522 | 9% | 54.2 million | 6% |
| 2 | GOBIERNO AUTONOMO DESCENTRALIZADO PARROQUIAL RURAL DE LLACAO | 259 | 5% | 13.8 million | 2% |
| 3 | GOBIERNO AUTONOMO DESCENTRALIZADO MUNICIPAL DE ANTONIO ANTE | 254 | 4% | 38.2 million | 4% |
| 4 | MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION | 190 | 3% | 68.1 million | 8% |
| 5 | CORPORACION ELECTRICA DEL ECUADOR CELEC EP. | 147 | 3% | 35.2 million | 4% |
| 6 | GOBIERNO AUTONOMO DESCENTRALIZADO DEL DISTRITO METROPOLITANO DE QUITO | 139 | 2% | 22.0 million | 2% |
| 7 | EMPRESA PÚBLICA DE HIDROCARBUROS DEL ECUADOR EP PETROECUADOR | 84 | 1% | 36.5 million | 4% |
| 8 | INSTITUTO ECUATORIANO DE SEGURIDAD SOCIAL | 83 | 1% | 14.1 million | 2% |
| 9 | EMPRESA PUBLICA MUNICIPAL DE AGUA POTABLE Y ALCANTARILLADO DEL CANTON CHIMBO | 83 | 1% | 7.99 million | under 1% |
| 10 | EMPRESA ELÉCTRICA PÚBLICA ESTRATÉGICA CORPORACIÓN NACIONAL DE ELECTRICIDAD CNEL EP | 78 | 1% | 24.5 million | 3% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Sectors
The award records for Ecuador have no CPV code, so this story has no sector table.
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
- SERCOP award notices for Ecuador. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- January 2025 to October 2026. We hold 22 months of data for Ecuador, so the window has 22 months, not 24.
- The records for Ecuador have no CPV code, so this story shows no sector numbers. 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 USD. 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 Ecuador. 100% of the awards state an amount, USD 902 million in total.
- 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 2 November 2026. Awards from January 2025 to October 2026 (22 months of data). The numbers change when we add new awards.