{"title":"Optical instruments market in Austria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/at/386-optical-instruments","scope":"Austria","category":{"cpvGroup":"386","label":"Optical instruments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Austria awarded 18 supply contracts for optical instruments through award notices on TED; the 12 of them that state a value (66.7%) add up to €3.83 million. Austria imported €239 million of goods in the customs headings matched to optical instruments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9002, 9013, 9006, 9005, 9007 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 28 companies have won 35 public supply contracts for optical instruments in Austria, in 30 award notices from 19 public buyers.","54.3% of these awards went to companies registered in Austria; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 31.4% of all awards.","76.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":35,"awardNotices":30,"winningCompanies":28,"publicBuyers":19,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":8364752,"localAwards":19,"foreignAwards":16,"top5Share":0.3142857142857143,"singleBidAwards":20,"awardsWithKnownBids":26,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":4,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":413800},{"year":2024,"awards":4,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":2029977},{"year":2025,"awards":18,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":3827761},{"year":2026,"awards":9,"awardNotices":9,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":2093214}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9002","label":"Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus (excl. such elements of glass not optically worked)"},{"hs4":"9013","label":"Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other heading"},{"hs4":"9006","label":"Photographic cameras, photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs (excl. discharge lamps of heading 8539)"},{"hs4":"9005","label":"Binoculars, monoculars, astronomical and other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor"},{"hs4":"9007","label":"Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus (excl. video equipment)"},{"hs4":"9010","label":"Apparatus and equipment for photographic or cinematographic laboratories, not elsewhere specified in chapter 90"},{"hs4":"9008","label":"Image projectors, and photographic enlargers and reducers (excl. cinematographic)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":235041057},{"year":2024,"valueEur":226266115},{"year":2025,"valueEur":239342350}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Austria — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €79.5 billion in 2025, 15.3% 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."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":79482000000,"percentOfGdp":15.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.1,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Optical instruments market in Austria\", https://cresques.com/markets/at/386-optical-instruments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}