{"title":"Animal or vegetable oils and fats market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/154-animal-or-vegetable-oils-and-fats","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"154","label":"Animal or vegetable oils and fats"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 28 supply contracts for animal or vegetable oils and fats through award notices on TED; the 25 of them that state a value (89.3%) add up to €4.92 million. Bulgaria imported €426 million of goods in the customs headings matched to animal or vegetable oils and fats in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 1512, 1511, 1509, 1514, 1517 and 5 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 8.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 34 companies have won 66 public supply contracts for animal or vegetable oils and fats in Bulgaria, in 61 award notices from 33 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 37.9% of all awards.","22% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":66,"awardNotices":61,"winningCompanies":34,"publicBuyers":33,"awardsWithValue":62,"awardedValueEur":39764438,"localAwards":66,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.3787878787878788,"singleBidAwards":13,"awardsWithKnownBids":59,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":22,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":33248485},{"year":2025,"awards":28,"awardNotices":25,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":4916691},{"year":2026,"awards":16,"awardNotices":14,"awardsWithValue":16,"awardedValueEur":1599262}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"1512","label":"Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified"},{"hs4":"1511","label":"Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined (excl. chemically modified)"},{"hs4":"1509","label":"Olive oil and its fractions obtained from the fruit of the olive tree solely by mechanical or other physical means under conditions that do not lead to deterioration of the oil, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified"},{"hs4":"1514","label":"Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified"},{"hs4":"1517","label":"Margarine, other edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils and edible fractions of different fats or oils (excl. fats, oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared, and mixtures of olive oils and their fractions)"},{"hs4":"1515","label":"Fixed vegetable fats and oils, incl. jojoba oil, and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excl. soya-bean, groundnut, olive, palm, sunflower-seed, safflower, cotton-seed, coconut, palm kernel, babassu, rape, colza and mustard oil)"},{"hs4":"1507","label":"Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined (excl. chemically modified)"},{"hs4":"1516","label":"Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared"},{"hs4":"1501","label":"Pig fat, incl. lard, and poultry fat, rendered or otherwise extracted (excl. lard stearin and lard oil)"},{"hs4":"1502","label":"Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats (excl. oil and oleostearin)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":393291191},{"year":2024,"valueEur":526163569},{"year":2025,"valueEur":425784496}]},"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 or vegetable oils and fats market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/154-animal-or-vegetable-oils-and-fats, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}