{"title":"Computer equipment and supplies market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/302-computer-equipment-and-supplies","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"302","label":"Computer equipment and supplies"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 126 supply contracts for computer equipment and supplies through award notices on TED; the 76 of them that state a value (60.3%) add up to €175 million. Belgium imported €4.5 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to computer equipment and supplies in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8471 and 8473; all buyers, not only public ones), up 12.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 162 companies have won 400 public supply contracts for computer equipment and supplies in Belgium, in 207 award notices from 118 public buyers.","89% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 23.3% of all awards.","18.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":400,"awardNotices":207,"winningCompanies":162,"publicBuyers":118,"awardsWithValue":280,"awardedValueEur":760729383,"localAwards":356,"foreignAwards":44,"top5Share":0.2325,"singleBidAwards":51,"awardsWithKnownBids":270,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":34,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":121401393},{"year":2024,"awards":165,"awardNotices":82,"awardsWithValue":136,"awardedValueEur":354058833},{"year":2025,"awards":126,"awardNotices":66,"awardsWithValue":76,"awardedValueEur":174639209},{"year":2026,"awards":75,"awardNotices":46,"awardsWithValue":40,"awardedValueEur":110629948}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8471","label":"Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof"},{"hs4":"8473","label":"Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of heading 8469 to 8472, n.e.s."}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":3984094935},{"year":2024,"valueEur":5289246259},{"year":2025,"valueEur":4497230684}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Belgium — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €99.6 billion in 2025, 15.5% 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":99553000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.5,"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":[{"text":"Investment in ICT equipment across the whole EU economy reached €140.2 billion in 2025, up from €131.7 billion in 2024 (Eurostat national accounts).","source":"Eurostat, Cross-classification of gross fixed capital formation by industry and by asset (nama_10_an6)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/nama_10_an6?geo=EU27_2020&unit=CP_MEUR&asset10=N1132G&asset10=N1131G&time=2023&time=2024&time=2025&lang=en","referenceYear":2025}],"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, \"Computer equipment and supplies market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/302-computer-equipment-and-supplies, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}