{"title":"Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/310-electrical-machinery-apparatus-equipment-and-consu","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"310","label":"Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 53 supply contracts for electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting through award notices on TED; the 35 of them that state a value (66%) add up to €17 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 73 companies have won 108 public supply contracts for electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting in Bulgaria, in 88 award notices from 29 public buyers.","99.1% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 25% of all awards.","18.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":108,"awardNotices":88,"winningCompanies":73,"publicBuyers":29,"awardsWithValue":83,"awardedValueEur":81605241,"localAwards":107,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.25,"singleBidAwards":19,"awardsWithKnownBids":101,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":34,"awardNotices":34,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":59106882},{"year":2025,"awards":53,"awardNotices":37,"awardsWithValue":35,"awardedValueEur":17031050},{"year":2026,"awards":21,"awardNotices":17,"awardsWithValue":20,"awardedValueEur":5467309}]},"imports":null,"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, \"Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/310-electrical-machinery-apparatus-equipment-and-consu, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}