Data story · ARCE award notices · Mar 2025 – Oct 2026
7,583 awards in Uruguay went to 2,327 suppliers from March 2025 to October 2026. Most suppliers in Uruguay won one award in the window: 55% of 2,327. The 23 suppliers with the most awards, the top 1%, won 14% of them.
Most awards here give no amount: 1% do. Below 40% we show no value numbers. No supplier won more than under 1% of the awards. MEGALABS URUGUAY S A won the most: 67.
- Awards
- 7,583
- Contract awards from Mar 2025 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 2,327
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 55%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 14%
- Share of awards won by the 23 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.57
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
We hold 20 months of data for Uruguay, so the window is 20 months, not 24. Do not compare these shares with 24-month windows.
How the awards spread across suppliers
1% of these awards state an amount. Our floor is 40%, so this story shows counts only.
Uruguay ranks 23rd of 48 countries for the Gini coefficient and 35th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MEGALABS URUGUAY S A | 67 | under 1% |
| 2 | GUNTER SCHAAF SOCIEDAD ANONIMA | 59 | under 1% |
| 3 | FIERRO VIGNOLI S A FIVISA | 54 | under 1% |
| 4 | GASTROCLINICA S.R.L. | 52 | under 1% |
| 5 | LABORATORIOS CELSIUS S A | 52 | under 1% |
| 6 | W MEDICAL SA | 50 | under 1% |
| 7 | CERAMICAS CASTRO S A | 47 | under 1% |
| 8 | LABORATORIO ION S.A. | 46 | under 1% |
| 9 | SAKIRA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA | 45 | under 1% |
| 10 | FARMACO URUGUAYO S.A. | 45 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell | 365 | 5% |
| 2 | Centro Departamental de Rocha | 359 | 5% |
| 3 | Direc. General de Secretaría. | 359 | 5% |
| 4 | Dirección General de la Salud | 292 | 4% |
| 5 | Centro Departamental de Flores | 239 | 3% |
| 6 | Hospital de San Carlos | 217 | 3% |
| 7 | Hospital Español | 198 | 3% |
| 8 | Banco de Previsión Social | 168 | 2% |
| 9 | Centro Auxiliar de Pando | 153 | 2% |
| 10 | Hospital Maciel | 153 | 2% |
No value columns: 1% of these awards state an amount.
Sectors
The award records for Uruguay 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
- ARCE award notices for Uruguay. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- March 2025 to October 2026. We hold 20 months of data for Uruguay, so the window has 20 months, not 24.
- The records for Uruguay 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.
- Value numbers need an amount on 40% of the awards or more. Here 1% have one, so the 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 31 October 2026. Awards from March 2025 to October 2026 (20 months of data). The numbers change when we add new awards.