Data story · DNCP award notices · Sep 2024 – Aug 2026
3,091 awards in Paraguay went to 1,268 suppliers from September 2024 to August 2026. 56% of the 1,268 suppliers won exactly one award. Together they hold 23% of the awards. The top 1% of suppliers won 11% of the awards, below the median across the 34 countries with a story: 18%.
Value numbers need an amount on 40% of the awards or more. Here under 1% have one, so the story shows counts only. No supplier won more than 3% of the awards. DOCUMENTA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA won the most: 97.
- Awards
- 3,091
- Contract awards from Sep 2024 – Aug 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 1,268
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 56%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 11%
- Share of awards won by the 12 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.46
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Most awards here give no amount: under 1% do. Below 40% we show no value numbers.
Paraguay ranks 30th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 36th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DOCUMENTA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA | 97 | 3% |
| 2 | DATA SYSTEMS SA EMISORA DE CAPITAL ABIERTO | 32 | 1% |
| 3 | EMPORIO FERRETERIA S.R.L. | 29 | under 1% |
| 4 | ING. ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ ARIAS | 27 | under 1% |
| 5 | PRINTEC SA | 21 | under 1% |
| 6 | FIRE MASTER SRL | 18 | under 1% |
| 7 | WINNER S. R. L. | 18 | under 1% |
| 8 | FRANCISCO SABINO ROTELA LOPEZ | 17 | under 1% |
| 9 | HOLLER INGENIERIA S.R.L. | 17 | under 1% |
| 10 | IMUT SA (IMPORTADORA DE UTILIDADES SA) | 17 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social (MSPBS) | 230 | 7% |
| 2 | Corte Suprema de Justicia (CSJ) | 163 | 5% |
| 3 | Ministerio de Defensa Nacional (MDN) | 133 | 4% |
| 4 | Presidencia de la República | 117 | 4% |
| 5 | Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) | 113 | 4% |
| 6 | Instituto de Previsión Social (IPS) | 79 | 3% |
| 7 | Municipalidad de Luque | 50 | 2% |
| 8 | Banco Nacional de Fomento (BNF) | 48 | 2% |
| 9 | Petróleos Paraguayos (PETROPAR) | 47 | 2% |
| 10 | Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios del Paraguay (ESSAP) | 42 | 1% |
No value columns: under 1% of these awards state an amount.
Sectors
The award records for Paraguay 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
- DNCP award notices for Paraguay. 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 Paraguay, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- The records for Paraguay 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.
- under 1% of these awards state an amount. Our floor is 40%, so this story shows counts only.
- 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.