{"title":"Fuels market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/091-fuels","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"091","label":"Fuels"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 716 supply contracts for fuels through award notices on TED; the 609 of them that state a value (85.1%) add up to €221 million. Bulgaria imported €3.03 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to fuels in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2710, 2711, 2701, 2704, 2703 and 3 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 47% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 235 companies have won 1,746 public supply contracts for fuels in Bulgaria, in 1,448 award notices from 617 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 39.5% of all awards.","70.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1746,"awardNotices":1448,"winningCompanies":235,"publicBuyers":617,"awardsWithValue":1614,"awardedValueEur":775408290,"localAwards":1746,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.3951890034364261,"singleBidAwards":1139,"awardsWithKnownBids":1615,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":568,"awardNotices":491,"awardsWithValue":552,"awardedValueEur":299464820},{"year":2025,"awards":716,"awardNotices":573,"awardsWithValue":609,"awardedValueEur":221277231},{"year":2026,"awards":462,"awardNotices":384,"awardsWithValue":453,"awardedValueEur":254666238}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2710","label":"Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (excl. crude)"},{"hs4":"2711","label":"Petroleum gas and other gaseous hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2701","label":"Coal"},{"hs4":"2704","label":"Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"2703","label":"Peat, incl. peat litter, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"4402","label":"Wood charcoal, incl. shell or nut charcoal, whether or not agglomerated (excl. wood charcoal used as a medicament, charcoal mixed with incense, activated charcoal and charcoal in the form of crayons)"},{"hs4":"2702","label":"Lignite, whether or not agglomerated (excl. jet)"},{"hs4":"2705","label":"Coal gas, water gas, producer gas, lean gas and similar gases (excl. petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2060237195},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1870305344},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3028600809}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Bulgaria — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €14.4 billion in 2025, 12.4% 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":14443000000,"percentOfGdp":12.4,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":29.5,"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, \"Fuels market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/091-fuels, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}