Data story · PLACE award notices · Aug 2024 – Jul 2026
57,794 awards in Spain went to 11,629 suppliers from August 2024 to July 2026. Of 11,629 winning suppliers, 52% won once. Their awards are 10% of the total. Spain is above the median: the top 1% of suppliers won 25%, against 18% in the median country (34 countries).
Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 49% of EUR 69.2 billion. That is 24 points above the top 1% share of awards. The largest supplier, Telefonica Soluciones de Informatica y Comunicaciones de España S.A.U., won 726 awards (1%).
- Awards
- 57,794
- Contract awards from Aug 2024 – Jul 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 11,629
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 52%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 25%
- Share of awards won by the 116 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.68
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
- Stated value (EUR)
- EUR 69.2 billion
- From the 70% 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
Spain ranks 7th of 40 countries for the Gini coefficient and 11th 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 | Telefonica Soluciones de Informatica y Comunicaciones de España S.A.U. | 726 | 1% | 1.82 billion | 3% |
| 2 | Medtronic Iberica | 488 | under 1% | 167 million | under 1% |
| 3 | PALEX MEDICAL, S.A. | 404 | under 1% | 100 million | under 1% |
| 4 | IBERDROLA CLIENTES, S.A.U. | 333 | under 1% | 1.60 billion | 2% |
| 5 | ELECNOR SERVICIOS Y PROYECTOS SAU | 323 | under 1% | 517 million | under 1% |
| 6 | INETUM ESPAÑA, S.A | 322 | under 1% | 458 million | under 1% |
| 7 | SERVEO SERVICIOS, S.A. | 287 | under 1% | 930 million | 1% |
| 8 | PLATAFORMA FEMAR SL | 230 | under 1% | 21.6 million | under 1% |
| 9 | Endesa Energía, S.A.U | 225 | under 1% | 617 million | under 1% |
| 10 | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC IBÉRICA, S.A. | 224 | under 1% | 52.6 million | under 1% |
Who buys the most
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Sectors
10 sectors have 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Medical | 13,614 | 1,491 | 21% | 44% |
| IT & Software | 6,753 | 1,138 | 24% | 51% |
| Professional Services & Consulting | 5,679 | 2,398 | 14% | 64% |
| Facilities Management | 3,947 | 844 | 17% | 49% |
| Transport & Logistics | 3,544 | 1,065 | 14% | 53% |
| Energy & Power | 2,143 | 367 | 33% | 61% |
| Defense & Security | 1,103 | 297 | 7% | 51% |
| Education | 1,083 | 458 | 9% | 58% |
| Construction & Public Works | 1,009 | 396 | 10% | 67% |
| Roads & Bridges | 905 | 321 | 8% | 55% |
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
- PLACE award notices for Spain. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- August 2024 to July 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for Spain, 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 Spain. 70% of the awards state an amount, EUR 69.2 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 August 2024 to July 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.