Data story · TED award notices · Sep 2024 – Aug 2026
2,769 awards in Luxembourg went to 1,459 suppliers from September 2024 to August 2026. Of 1,459 winning suppliers, 68% won once. Their awards are 36% of the total. The top 1% of suppliers won 12% of the awards, below the median across the 34 countries with a story: 18%.
Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 49% of EUR 6.58 billion. That is 37 points above the top 1% share of awards. No supplier won more than 2% of the awards. VSHN AG won the most: 59.
- Awards
- 2,769
- Contract awards from Sep 2024 – Aug 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 1,459
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 68%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 12%
- Share of awards won by the 14 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.40
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
- Stated value (EUR)
- EUR 6.58 billion
- From the 45% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
- Top 1% by stated value
- 49%
- Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Luxembourg ranks 38th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 34th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (EUR) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VSHN AG | 59 | 2% | – | – |
| 2 | Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. | 39 | 1% | – | – |
| 3 | Bechtle AG | 34 | 1% | – | – |
| 4 | Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. | 33 | 1% | – | – |
| 5 | Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. | 26 | under 1% | – | – |
| 6 | Bechtle AG | 20 | under 1% | – | – |
| 7 | Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. | 19 | under 1% | – | – |
| 8 | Merbag SA | 18 | under 1% | 43.4 million | under 1% |
| 9 | Hitec Luxembourg S.A. | 14 | under 1% | 58.2 million | under 1% |
| 10 | Provençale | 14 | under 1% | 2.72 million | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (EUR) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GÉANT Vereniging | 312 | 11% | – | – |
| 2 | Fonds du Logement | 162 | 6% | 164 million | 2% |
| 3 | Centre des technologies de l'information de l'Etat | 112 | 4% | 101 million | 2% |
| 4 | Commission de surveillance du secteur financier | 77 | 3% | 9.51 million | under 1% |
| 5 | European Investment Bank EIB | 75 | 3% | 385 million | 6% |
| 6 | MAEE, de la Défense, de la Coopération et du Commerce extérieur-Direction de la Défense | 71 | 3% | 326 million | 5% |
| 7 | Ville de Luxembourg - Service Canalisation | 70 | 3% | 154 million | 2% |
| 8 | EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK | 68 | 2% | 361 million | 5% |
| 9 | Université du Luxembourg | 66 | 2% | 89.4 million | 1% |
| 10 | Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union | 64 | 2% | 24 | under 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT & Software | 879 | 328 | 15% | 60% |
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 Luxembourg. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- September 2024 to August 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for Luxembourg, 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 EUR. 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 Luxembourg. 45% of the awards state an amount, EUR 6.58 billion in total.
- The awards for Luxembourg 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 September 2024 to August 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.