{"title":"Software package and information systems market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/480-software-package-and-information-systems","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"480","label":"Software package and information systems"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 92 supply contracts for software package and information systems through award notices on TED; the 61 of them that state a value (66.3%) add up to €215 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 185 companies have won 275 public supply contracts for software package and information systems in Belgium, in 239 award notices from 94 public buyers.","73.8% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 19.3% of all awards.","35.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":275,"awardNotices":239,"winningCompanies":185,"publicBuyers":94,"awardsWithValue":194,"awardedValueEur":462073690,"localAwards":203,"foreignAwards":72,"top5Share":0.19272727272727272,"singleBidAwards":71,"awardsWithKnownBids":200,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":16,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":34721414},{"year":2024,"awards":85,"awardNotices":69,"awardsWithValue":63,"awardedValueEur":139469179},{"year":2025,"awards":92,"awardNotices":87,"awardsWithValue":61,"awardedValueEur":214513092},{"year":2026,"awards":82,"awardNotices":72,"awardsWithValue":55,"awardedValueEur":73370005}]},"imports":null,"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":[],"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, \"Software package and information systems market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/480-software-package-and-information-systems, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}