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

The headline numbers

contract awards for supplies

83,599

contract awards for supplies

TED award notices they come from

21,078

TED award notices they come from

distinct winning companies

15,563

distinct winning companies

of awards went to a company registered in France

98.3%

of awards went to a company registered in France

went to a company registered abroad, most often in Germany

1.7%

went to a company registered abroad, most often in Germany

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

20.5%

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 France: 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 France — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €486 billion in 2025, 16.2% 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 France

tenders per awarded lot (median, 64,544 lots with a stated count)

3

tenders per awarded lot (median, 64,544 lots with a stated count)

of awarded lots drew three or more tenders

52.5%

of awarded lots drew three or more tenders

of award notices come from a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition (720 of 21,138)

3.4%

of award notices come from a negotiated procedure without a prior call for competition (720 of 21,138)

of award notices name more than one buyer (942 joint purchases)

4.5%

of award notices name more than one buyer (942 joint purchases)

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

17 days

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

of award notices appear within 30 days of the contract

68.7%

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 70.4% of awards)

44.3%

of awards that state the winner's size went to a small or medium-sized company (size stated for 70.4% 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 France since November 2023 (updated daily).

1. Medical equipments1,698 companies
2. Miscellaneous food products1,333 companies
3. Motor vehicles1,144 companies
4. Pharmaceutical products1,142 companies
5. Furniture1,101 companies
6. Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts1,100 companies
7. Furnishing925 companies
8. Construction materials and associated items852 companies
9. Parts and accessories for vehicles and their engines778 companies
10. Office machinery, equipment and supplies except computers, printers and furniture677 companies
11. Computer equipment and supplies557 companies
12. Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories554 companies

Who wins, who buys, how to enter

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

How to cite

Cresques, "Public procurement in France in numbers: supply contracts on TED, 2023–2026", counted 8 November 2026 from TED contract award notices, https://cresques.com/data/fr. Every figure has its own address: add the anchor, for example https://cresques.com/data/fr#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.