Data story · AusTender award notices · Jun 2025 – Oct 2026

44,618 awards in Australia went to 12,685 suppliers from June 2025 to October 2026. Of 12,685 winning suppliers, 65% won once. Their awards are 18% of the total. The 126 suppliers with the most awards, the top 1%, won 31% of them.

Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 60% of AUD 29.3 billion. That is 29 points above the top 1% share of awards. One buyer, Department of Defence, signed 43% of the awards.

Awards: 44,618; Contract awards from Jun 2025 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
Winning suppliers: 12,685; 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: 31%; Share of awards won by the 126 suppliers with the most awards.
Gini coefficient: 0.64; Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
Stated value (AUD): AUD 29.3 billion; From the 100% of awards that state an amount, capped at the 99.9th percentile.
Top 1% by stated value: 60%; Share of stated value won by the top 1% of suppliers by value.

We hold 17 months of data for Australia, so the window is 17 months, not 24. Do not compare these shares with 24-month windows.

How the awards spread across suppliers

Share of suppliers, awards and stated value by the number of awards each supplier won: 1, 2–5, 6–20, 21–100, 101 or more. Australia, June 2025 to October 2026.

Suppliers in order from the fewest awards to the most (x), against their total share of awards (y). The dashed line is an equal share for each supplier. The lower the curve, the more the awards gather at the top. Gini 0.64; by stated value 0.94.

Hollow dots: the share of awards held by the top 1% and the top 10% of suppliers by number of awards. Solid dots: the share of stated value held by the top 1% and the top 10% by stated value. The two groups can hold different suppliers. 100% of the awards state an amount. Values in AUD, capped at the 99.9th percentile.

Australia ranks 14th of 48 countries for the Gini coefficient and 9th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.

Who wins the most awards

Top 10 suppliers by number of awards, June 2025 to October 2026.
#	Supplier	Awards	Share of awards	Stated value (AUD)	Share of value
1	THALES AUSTRALIA	456	1%	266 million	under 1%
2	Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd	359	under 1%	125 million	under 1%
3	DELL AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED	358	under 1%	199 million	under 1%
4	TELSTRA LIMITED	335	under 1%	172 million	under 1%
5	AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT SOLICITOR	296	under 1%	36.2 million	under 1%
6	HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT (AUSTRALIA) PTY LIMITED	279	under 1%	68.5 million	under 1%
7	DATA 3 LIMITED	278	under 1%	1.15 billion	4%
8	BIDFOOD AUSTRALIA LIMITED	257	under 1%	11.4 million	under 1%
9	SG FLEET AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED	249	under 1%	131 million	under 1%
10	University of New South Wales	221	under 1%	43.0 million	under 1%

Who buys the most

Top 10 buyers by number of awards, June 2025 to October 2026.
#	Buyer	Awards	Share of awards	Stated value (AUD)	Share of value
1	Department of Defence	19,241	43%	11.2 billion	38%
2	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Australian Aid Program	2,126	5%	1.84 billion	6%
3	Department of Veterans' Affairs	1,688	4%	424 million	1%
4	Department of Health, Disability and Ageing	1,418	3%	2.39 billion	8%
5	Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water	1,394	3%	1.03 billion	4%
6	Services Australia	1,318	3%	1.32 billion	5%
7	Australian Federal Police	1,013	2%	518 million	2%
8	Department of Home Affairs	926	2%	1.38 billion	5%
9	Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	804	2%	58.0 million	under 1%
10	Australian Taxation Office	800	2%	769 million	3%

Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.

Sectors

The award records for Australia 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

AusTender award notices for Australia. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
June 2025 to October 2026. We hold 17 months of data for Australia, so the window has 17 months, not 24.
The records for Australia 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 AUD. 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 Australia. 100% of the awards state an amount, AUD 29.3 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 31 October 2026. Awards from June 2025 to October 2026 (17 months of data). The numbers change when we add new awards.