{"title":"Natural water market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/411-natural-water","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"411","label":"Natural water"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 76 supply contracts for natural water through award notices on TED; the 75 of them that state a value (98.7%) add up to €9.67 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 37 companies have won 210 public supply contracts for natural water in Bulgaria, in 194 award notices from 103 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 40.5% of all awards.","71.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":210,"awardNotices":194,"winningCompanies":37,"publicBuyers":103,"awardsWithValue":206,"awardedValueEur":35771486,"localAwards":210,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.40476190476190477,"singleBidAwards":136,"awardsWithKnownBids":190,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":78,"awardNotices":66,"awardsWithValue":75,"awardedValueEur":9330433},{"year":2025,"awards":76,"awardNotices":74,"awardsWithValue":75,"awardedValueEur":9674575},{"year":2026,"awards":56,"awardNotices":54,"awardsWithValue":56,"awardedValueEur":16766479}]},"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, \"Natural water market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/411-natural-water, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}