{"title":"Animal products, meat and meat products market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/151-animal-products-meat-and-meat-products","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"151","label":"Animal products, meat and meat products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 121 supply contracts for animal products, meat and meat products through award notices on TED; the 118 of them that state a value (97.5%) add up to €17.3 million. Bulgaria imported €678 million of goods in the customs headings matched to animal products, meat and meat products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 0201, 0203, 0207, 1602, 1601 and 6 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 2.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 90 companies have won 297 public supply contracts for animal products, meat and meat products in Bulgaria, in 272 award notices from 161 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 30% of all awards.","13.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":297,"awardNotices":272,"winningCompanies":90,"publicBuyers":161,"awardsWithValue":288,"awardedValueEur":80329724,"localAwards":297,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.2996632996632997,"singleBidAwards":38,"awardsWithKnownBids":279,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":81,"awardNotices":77,"awardsWithValue":79,"awardedValueEur":44536122},{"year":2025,"awards":121,"awardNotices":108,"awardsWithValue":118,"awardedValueEur":17311272},{"year":2026,"awards":95,"awardNotices":87,"awardsWithValue":91,"awardedValueEur":18482330}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"0201","label":"Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled"},{"hs4":"0203","label":"Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen"},{"hs4":"0207","label":"Meat and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls, fresh, chilled or frozen"},{"hs4":"1602","label":"Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood (excl. sausages and similar products, and meat extracts and juices)"},{"hs4":"1601","label":"Sausages and similar products, of meat, offal or blood"},{"hs4":"0202","label":"Meat of bovine animals, frozen"},{"hs4":"0210","label":"Meat and edible offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked"},{"hs4":"0204","label":"Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen"},{"hs4":"0206","label":"Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen"},{"hs4":"0208","label":"Meat and edible offal of rabbits, hares, pigeons and other animals, fresh, chilled or frozen (excl. of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules, hinnies, poultry \"fowls of the species Gallus domesticus\", ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls)"},{"hs4":"0205","label":"Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":696689469},{"year":2024,"valueEur":709228517},{"year":2025,"valueEur":678234320}]},"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, \"Animal products, meat and meat products market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/151-animal-products-meat-and-meat-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}