Data story · PPIP / IFMIS award notices · Jul 2024 – Jun 2026
31,063 awards in Kenya went to 12,434 suppliers from July 2024 to June 2026. Of 12,434 winning suppliers, 54% won once. Their awards are 22% of the total. The top 1% of suppliers won 14% of the awards, below the median across the 34 countries with a story: 18%.
Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 51% of KES 158 billion. That is 37 points above the top 1% share of awards. No supplier won more than under 1% of the awards. Longrock Tours & Travel Limited won the most: 218.
- Awards
- 31,063
- Contract awards from Jul 2024 – Jun 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 12,434
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 54%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 14%
- Share of awards won by the 124 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.48
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
- Stated value (KES)
- KES 158 billion
- From the 99% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
- Top 1% by stated value
- 51%
- Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Kenya ranks 29th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 27th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (KES) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longrock Tours & Travel Limited | 218 | under 1% | 36.9 million | under 1% |
| 2 | African Touch Safaris | 176 | under 1% | 19.6 million | under 1% |
| 3 | FRAPERT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED | 153 | under 1% | 1.75 billion | 1% |
| 4 | KAYLAN TRAVEL | 111 | under 1% | 11.1 million | under 1% |
| 5 | Amark Northern Agency Ltd | 89 | under 1% | 3.46 million | under 1% |
| 6 | M/S Lake Naivasha Resort | 87 | under 1% | 58.2 million | under 1% |
| 7 | premier | 83 | under 1% | 97.4 million | under 1% |
| 8 | PROTIST LAB AFRICA LIMITED | 83 | under 1% | 15.6 million | under 1% |
| 9 | ATTIC TOURS AND TRAVEL | 74 | under 1% | 21.4 million | under 1% |
| 10 | SILVER AFRICA TOURS & SAFARIS LIMITED | 68 | under 1% | 14.2 million | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (KES) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenya Rural Roads Authority | 1,806 | 6% | 15.4 billion | 10% |
| 2 | Makueni County Government | 1,300 | 4% | 2.14 billion | 1% |
| 3 | West Pokot County Government | 932 | 3% | 1.61 billion | 1% |
| 4 | South Nyanza Sugar Company Limited | 915 | 3% | 517 million | under 1% |
| 5 | Migori County Government | 720 | 2% | 1.23 billion | under 1% |
| 6 | The Judiciary | 672 | 2% | 1.38 billion | under 1% |
| 7 | Kenya Revenue Authority | 602 | 2% | 5.99 billion | 4% |
| 8 | Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) | 589 | 2% | 377 million | under 1% |
| 9 | Kenya Tourism Board | 562 | 2% | 382 million | under 1% |
| 10 | The Meru National Polytechnic | 547 | 2% | 2.07 billion | 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Sectors
The award records for Kenya 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
- PPIP / IFMIS award notices for Kenya. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- July 2024 to June 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for Kenya, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- The records for Kenya 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 KES. 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 Kenya. 99% of the awards state an amount, KES 158 billion 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 9 October 2026. Awards from July 2024 to June 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.