{"title":"Emergency and security equipment market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/351-emergency-and-security-equipment","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"351","label":"Emergency and security equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 49 supply contracts for emergency and security equipment through award notices on TED; the 46 of them that state a value (93.9%) add up to €29 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 72 companies have won 145 public supply contracts for emergency and security equipment in Bulgaria, in 110 award notices from 35 public buyers.","95.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 22.8% of all awards.","30.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":145,"awardNotices":110,"winningCompanies":72,"publicBuyers":35,"awardsWithValue":123,"awardedValueEur":116795434,"localAwards":139,"foreignAwards":6,"top5Share":0.22758620689655173,"singleBidAwards":42,"awardsWithKnownBids":138,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":50,"awardNotices":35,"awardsWithValue":35,"awardedValueEur":27994389},{"year":2025,"awards":49,"awardNotices":36,"awardsWithValue":46,"awardedValueEur":28971538},{"year":2026,"awards":46,"awardNotices":39,"awardsWithValue":42,"awardedValueEur":59829506}]},"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":[{"text":"The European Defence Agency puts EU Member States' defence spending at €418 billion in 2025, 2.2% of GDP.","source":"European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2025-2026","url":"https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-publications/2026-eda_defencedata_webpublic.pdf","referenceYear":2025},{"text":"The European Defence Agency puts defence equipment procurement by EU Member States at €115 billion in 2025, up 26% in real terms.","source":"European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2025-2026","url":"https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-publications/2026-eda_defencedata_webpublic.pdf","referenceYear":2025}],"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, \"Emergency and security equipment market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/351-emergency-and-security-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}