{"title":"Fertilisers and nitrogen compounds market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/244-fertilisers-and-nitrogen-compounds","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"244","label":"Fertilisers and nitrogen compounds"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 55 supply contracts for fertilisers and nitrogen compounds through award notices on TED; the 55 of them that state a value (100%) add up to €3.76 million. Bulgaria imported €764 million of goods in the customs headings matched to fertilisers and nitrogen compounds in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3808, 3102, 3105, 2814, 3104 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 11.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 33 companies have won 165 public supply contracts for fertilisers and nitrogen compounds in Bulgaria, in 78 award notices from 30 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 58.8% of all awards.","38.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":165,"awardNotices":78,"winningCompanies":33,"publicBuyers":30,"awardsWithValue":165,"awardedValueEur":9864587,"localAwards":165,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.5878787878787879,"singleBidAwards":61,"awardsWithKnownBids":159,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":72,"awardNotices":27,"awardsWithValue":72,"awardedValueEur":4025777},{"year":2025,"awards":55,"awardNotices":31,"awardsWithValue":55,"awardedValueEur":3759898},{"year":2026,"awards":38,"awardNotices":20,"awardsWithValue":38,"awardedValueEur":2078912}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3808","label":"Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up for retail sale or as preparations or articles, e.g. sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers"},{"hs4":"3102","label":"Mineral or chemical nitrogenous fertilisers (excl. those in tablets or similar forms, or in packages with a gross weight of <= 10 kg)"},{"hs4":"3105","label":"Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium"},{"hs4":"2814","label":"Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution"},{"hs4":"3104","label":"Mineral or chemical potassic fertilisers (excl. those in tablets or similar forms, or in packages with a gross weight of <= 10 kg)"},{"hs4":"3101","label":"Animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated"},{"hs4":"3103","label":"Mineral or chemical phosphatic fertilisers (excl. those in tablets or similar forms, or in packages with a gross weight of <= 10 kg)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":684533104},{"year":2024,"valueEur":624594161},{"year":2025,"valueEur":764124706}]},"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, \"Fertilisers and nitrogen compounds market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/244-fertilisers-and-nitrogen-compounds, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}