{"title":"Petroleum, coal and oil products market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/092-petroleum-coal-and-oil-products","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"092","label":"Petroleum, coal and oil products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 61 supply contracts for petroleum, coal and oil products through award notices on TED; the 60 of them that state a value (98.4%) add up to €16.6 million. Bulgaria imported €2.28 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to petroleum, coal and oil products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2709, 3403, 2712, 2708, 2714 and 2706; all buyers, not only public ones), down 22.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 33 companies have won 142 public supply contracts for petroleum, coal and oil products in Bulgaria, in 125 award notices from 62 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 63.4% of all awards.","66.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":142,"awardNotices":125,"winningCompanies":33,"publicBuyers":62,"awardsWithValue":140,"awardedValueEur":28262579,"localAwards":142,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.6338028169014085,"singleBidAwards":88,"awardsWithKnownBids":132,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":55,"awardNotices":52,"awardsWithValue":55,"awardedValueEur":8538684},{"year":2025,"awards":61,"awardNotices":47,"awardsWithValue":60,"awardedValueEur":16601254},{"year":2026,"awards":26,"awardNotices":26,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":3122641}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2709","label":"Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude"},{"hs4":"3403","label":"Lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations based on lubricants"},{"hs4":"2712","label":"Petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, micro- crystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products obtained by synthesis or by other processes, whether or not coloured"},{"hs4":"2708","label":"Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars"},{"hs4":"2714","label":"Bitumen and asphalt, natural"},{"hs4":"2706","label":"Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled, incl. reconstituted tars"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2946179934},{"year":2024,"valueEur":3760542879},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2275912026}]},"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, \"Petroleum, coal and oil products market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/092-petroleum-coal-and-oil-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}