Public procurement in Germany in numbers: supply contracts on TED, 2023–2026

The headline numbers

contract awards for supplies

71,193

contract awards for supplies

TED award notices they come from

32,785

TED award notices they come from

distinct winning companies

13,326

distinct winning companies

of awards went to a company registered in Germany

95.2%

of awards went to a company registered in Germany

went to a company registered abroad, most often in Austria

4.8%

went to a company registered abroad, most often in Austria

of awards with a known tender count came from a single tender

33.2%

of awards with a known tender count came from a single tender

Counted on 8 November 2026 from live TED contract award notices, awards dated since 1 November 2023. An award is one winner on one lot or contract line; it is not a tender and not an amount of money. "Local" means registered in Germany: a foreign group's local subsidiary counts as local. The single-bid share counts award rows from lots with exactly one tender. TED carries the contracts above the EU thresholds, not all public purchasing. How we count.

All public purchasing in Germany — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €864 billion in 2025, 19.1% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending. Source: Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp).

How the contracts are awarded in Germany

tenders per awarded lot (median, 62,314 lots with a stated count)

2

tenders per awarded lot (median, 62,314 lots with a stated count)

of awarded lots drew three or more tenders

40.6%

of awarded lots drew three or more tenders

of award notices come from a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition (5,977 of 32,873)

18.2%

of award notices come from a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition (5,977 of 32,873)

of award notices name more than one buyer (480 joint purchases)

1.5%

of award notices name more than one buyer (480 joint purchases)

from the conclusion of the contract to the notice on TED (median)

7 days

from the conclusion of the contract to the notice on TED (median)

of award notices appear within 30 days of the contract

82.0%

of award notices appear within 30 days of the contract

of awards that state the winner's size went to a small or medium-sized company (size stated for 95.1% of awards)

54.3%

of awards that state the winner's size went to a small or medium-sized company (size stated for 95.1% of awards)

Counted on 10 November 2026 from live TED contract award notices for supplies, awards dated since 1 November 2023. A lot is one part of a procedure; the tender count is the number the buyer states for the lot. "Without a prior call" is the procedure the notice itself names (negotiated without prior call for competition). Days run from the last contract concluded under a notice to the day TED published it; notices without that date are left out. Winner size is what the buyer ticked in the notice, so it is a share of the awards that state it, not of all awards. A figure is shown only where the field is filled in for at least 60% of the notices. Full method.

Product categories with the most winning companies

Each category has a page with its size, its buyers and the companies that win most often. The number is how many companies have won a public supply contract in the category in Germany since November 2023 (updated daily).

1. Motor vehicles1,178 companies
2. Software package and information systems1,150 companies
3. Computer equipment and supplies948 companies
4. Furniture825 companies
5. Medical equipments822 companies
6. Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)698 companies
7. Pharmaceutical products605 companies
8. Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery599 companies
9. Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts491 companies
10. Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy482 companies
11. Checking and testing apparatus438 companies
12. Industry specific software package427 companies

Who wins, who buys, how to enter

• Companies winning public supply contracts in Germany
• Public buyers in Germany and what they buy
• How to enter the Germany market through distributors
• All 30 countries compared

How to cite

Cresques, "Public procurement in Germany in numbers: supply contracts on TED, 2023–2026", counted 8 November 2026 from TED contract award notices, https://cresques.com/data/de. Every figure has its own address: add the anchor, for example https://cresques.com/data/de#single-bid-rate. Licence CC BY 4.0; the same figures for every country are in one JSON file. Press and researchers: hello@cresques.com.