Data story · GETS award notices · Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
5,551 awards in New Zealand went to 2,228 suppliers from January 2024 to December 2025. 65% of the 2,228 suppliers won exactly one award. Together they hold 26% of the awards. The 22 suppliers with the most awards, the top 1%, won 17% of them.
22% of these awards state an amount. Our floor is 40%, so this story shows counts only. Ministry of Education - School Infrastructure is the largest buyer: 1,537 awards, 28% of the total.
- Awards
- 5,551
- Contract awards from Jan 2024 – Dec 2025, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 2,228
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 65%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 17%
- Share of awards won by the 22 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.51
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
The window ends in December 2025. After that month, our data for New Zealand has too few awards to count.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Value numbers need an amount on 40% of the awards or more. Here 22% have one, so the story shows counts only.
New Zealand ranks 26th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 22nd for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fulton Hogan | 205 | 4% |
| 2 | Connetics Limited | 107 | 2% |
| 3 | Independent Verification Services Ltd | 64 | 1% |
| 4 | WSP NEW ZEALAND LIMITED | 46 | under 1% |
| 5 | Naylor Love | 44 | under 1% |
| 6 | Beca Ltd – all office | 44 | under 1% |
| 7 | POWER (2018) LIMITED | 42 | under 1% |
| 8 | Downer | 39 | under 1% |
| 9 | HEB Construction Ltd | 34 | under 1% |
| 10 | VENTIA NZ OPERATIONS LIMITED | 30 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ministry of Education - School Infrastructure | 1,537 | 28% |
| 2 | Orion New Zealand Limited | 304 | 5% |
| 3 | Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) | 229 | 4% |
| 4 | Christchurch City Council | 195 | 4% |
| 5 | Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities | 194 | 3% |
| 6 | New Zealand Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi) - HISTORIC | 119 | 2% |
| 7 | Gisborne District Council | 98 | 2% |
| 8 | Ministry for Primary Industries | 90 | 2% |
| 9 | Fire and Emergency New Zealand | 85 | 2% |
| 10 | Queenstown-Lakes District Council | 84 | 2% |
No value columns: 22% of these awards state an amount.
Sectors
The award records for New Zealand 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
- GETS award notices for New Zealand. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- January 2024 to December 2025. This is the latest 24 months of our data for New Zealand, up to December 2025, the last month with a normal number of awards.
- The records for New Zealand 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.
- Most awards here give no amount: 22% do. Below 40% we show no value 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 January 2024 to December 2025; data ends December 2025. The numbers change when we add new awards.