{"title":"Fruit, vegetables and related products market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/153-fruit-vegetables-and-related-products","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"153","label":"Fruit, vegetables and related products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 143 supply contracts for fruit, vegetables and related products through award notices on TED; the 142 of them that state a value (99.3%) add up to €20.8 million. Bulgaria imported €298 million of goods in the customs headings matched to fruit, vegetables and related products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004, 0811 and 6 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 15.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 88 companies have won 304 public supply contracts for fruit, vegetables and related products in Bulgaria, in 260 award notices from 153 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 29.3% of all awards.","20.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":304,"awardNotices":260,"winningCompanies":88,"publicBuyers":153,"awardsWithValue":298,"awardedValueEur":66868013,"localAwards":304,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.29276315789473684,"singleBidAwards":57,"awardsWithKnownBids":281,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":76,"awardNotices":68,"awardsWithValue":73,"awardedValueEur":38448836},{"year":2025,"awards":143,"awardNotices":116,"awardsWithValue":142,"awardedValueEur":20794357},{"year":2026,"awards":85,"awardNotices":76,"awardsWithValue":83,"awardedValueEur":7624820}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2009","label":"Fruit juices, incl. grape must, and vegetable juices, unfermented, not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter"},{"hs4":"2008","label":"Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit (excl. prepared or preserved with vinegar, preserved with sugar but not laid in syrup, and jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit purée and pastes, obtained by cooking)"},{"hs4":"2005","label":"Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen (excl. preserved by sugar, and tomatoes, mushrooms and truffles)"},{"hs4":"2004","label":"Vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen (excl. preserved by sugar, and tomatoes, mushrooms and truffles)"},{"hs4":"0811","label":"Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter"},{"hs4":"0710","label":"Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen"},{"hs4":"2002","label":"Tomatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid"},{"hs4":"2007","label":"Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter"},{"hs4":"2001","label":"Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid"},{"hs4":"0712","label":"Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared"},{"hs4":"1105","label":"Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":257796513},{"year":2024,"valueEur":279401312},{"year":2025,"valueEur":298479236}]},"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, \"Fruit, vegetables and related products market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/153-fruit-vegetables-and-related-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}