{"title":"Miscellaneous food products market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/158-miscellaneous-food-products","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"158","label":"Miscellaneous food products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 252 supply contracts for miscellaneous food products through award notices on TED; the 235 of them that state a value (93.3%) add up to €20.2 million. Bulgaria imported €1.56 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to miscellaneous food products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 1905, 1806, 2106, 1804, 1901 and 19 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 26.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 155 companies have won 691 public supply contracts for miscellaneous food products in Bulgaria, in 492 award notices from 196 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 21.4% of all awards.","23.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":691,"awardNotices":492,"winningCompanies":155,"publicBuyers":196,"awardsWithValue":632,"awardedValueEur":94856839,"localAwards":691,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.2141823444283647,"singleBidAwards":151,"awardsWithKnownBids":641,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":222,"awardNotices":165,"awardsWithValue":203,"awardedValueEur":51460816},{"year":2025,"awards":252,"awardNotices":170,"awardsWithValue":235,"awardedValueEur":20181492},{"year":2026,"awards":217,"awardNotices":157,"awardsWithValue":194,"awardedValueEur":23214531}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"1905","label":"Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa"},{"hs4":"1806","label":"Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa"},{"hs4":"2106","label":"Food preparations, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"1804","label":"Cocoa butter, fat and oil"},{"hs4":"1901","label":"Malt extract"},{"hs4":"2103","label":"Sauce and preparations therefor"},{"hs4":"1803","label":"Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted"},{"hs4":"1704","label":"Sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate"},{"hs4":"1902","label":"Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substances or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni"},{"hs4":"1701","label":"Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form"},{"hs4":"2101","label":"Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate"},{"hs4":"1805","label":"Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter"},{"hs4":"2104","label":"Soups and broths and preparations therefor"},{"hs4":"0904","label":"Pepper of the genus Piper"},{"hs4":"0910","label":"Ginger, saffron, turmeric \"curcuma\", thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices (excl. pepper of the genus Piper, fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, vanilla, cinnamon, cinnamontree flowers, cloves {wholefruit}, clove stems, nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin and caraway, and juniper berries)"},{"hs4":"0902","label":"Tea, whether or not flavoured"},{"hs4":"2102","label":"Yeasts, active or inactive"},{"hs4":"2209","label":"Vinegar, fermented vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid"},{"hs4":"1703","label":"Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar"},{"hs4":"0909","label":"Seeds of anis, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway"},{"hs4":"0908","label":"Nutmeg, mace and cardamoms"},{"hs4":"0906","label":"Cinnamon and cinnamon-tree flowers"},{"hs4":"0907","label":"Cloves, whole fruit, cloves and stems"},{"hs4":"0903","label":"Mate"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1229609083},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1368587620},{"year":2025,"valueEur":1556728687}]},"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, \"Miscellaneous food products market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/158-miscellaneous-food-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}