Data story · GETS award notices · Nov 2024 – Oct 2026
5,357 awards in New Zealand went to 2,386 suppliers from November 2024 to October 2026. 70% of the 2,386 suppliers won exactly one award. Together they hold 31% of the awards. The top 1% of suppliers won 19% of the awards, close to the median across the 39 countries with a story: 19%.
15% of these awards state an amount. Our floor is 40%, so this story shows counts only. No supplier won more than 3% of the awards. Further Award Information: won the most: 172.
- Awards
- 5,357
- Contract awards from Nov 2024 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 2,386
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 70%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 19%
- Share of awards won by the 23 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.49
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
How the awards spread across suppliers
Value numbers need an amount on 40% of the awards or more. Here 15% have one, so the story shows counts only.
New Zealand ranks 37th of 48 countries for the Gini coefficient and 24th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Further Award Information: | 172 | 3% |
| 2 | Fulton Hogan | 150 | 3% |
| 3 | Connetics Limited | 125 | 2% |
| 4 | Independent Verification Services Ltd | 58 | 1% |
| 5 | POWER (2018) LIMITED | 46 | under 1% |
| 6 | WSP NEW ZEALAND LIMITED | 45 | under 1% |
| 7 | Naylor Love | 43 | under 1% |
| 8 | Downer | 38 | under 1% |
| 9 | VENTIA NZ OPERATIONS LIMITED | 33 | under 1% |
| 10 | Beca Ltd – all office | 32 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ministry of Education - School Infrastructure | 1,287 | 24% |
| 2 | Orion New Zealand Limited | 322 | 6% |
| 3 | Department of Conservation | 251 | 5% |
| 4 | Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) | 248 | 5% |
| 5 | Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities | 171 | 3% |
| 6 | Christchurch City Council | 161 | 3% |
| 7 | Queenstown-Lakes District Council | 160 | 3% |
| 8 | New Zealand Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi) - HISTORIC | 135 | 3% |
| 9 | Gisborne District Council | 105 | 2% |
| 10 | Ministry for Primary Industries | 74 | 1% |
No value columns: 15% 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.
- November 2024 to October 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for New Zealand, up to 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: 15% 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 4 November 2026. Awards from November 2024 to October 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.