{"title":"Tanks, reservoirs and containers; central-heating radiators and boilers market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/446-tanks-reservoirs-and-containers-central-heating-ra","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"446","label":"Tanks, reservoirs and containers; central-heating radiators and boilers"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 31 supply contracts for tanks, reservoirs and containers; central-heating radiators and boilers through award notices on TED; the 20 of them that state a value (64.5%) add up to €8.54 million. Bulgaria imported €91.8 million of goods in the customs headings matched to tanks, reservoirs and containers; central-heating radiators and boilers in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8403, 7612, 7310, 7322, 7309 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 38 companies have won 75 public supply contracts for tanks, reservoirs and containers; central-heating radiators and boilers in Bulgaria, in 65 award notices from 28 public buyers.","94.7% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 36% of all awards.","28.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":75,"awardNotices":65,"winningCompanies":38,"publicBuyers":28,"awardsWithValue":51,"awardedValueEur":22065932,"localAwards":71,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.36,"singleBidAwards":18,"awardsWithKnownBids":63,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":20,"awardNotices":18,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":1017046},{"year":2025,"awards":31,"awardNotices":27,"awardsWithValue":20,"awardedValueEur":8539429},{"year":2026,"awards":24,"awardNotices":20,"awardsWithValue":24,"awardedValueEur":12509457}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8403","label":"Central heating boilers, non-electric"},{"hs4":"7612","label":"Casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, incl. rigid or collapsible tubular containers, of aluminium, for any material (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of a capacity of <= 300 l, not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment, whether or not lined or heat-insulated, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7310","label":"Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, of iron or steel, for any material \"other than compressed or liquefied gas\", of a capacity of <= 300 l, not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment, whether or not lined or heat-insulated, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7322","label":"Radiators for central heating, non-electrically heated, and parts thereof, of iron or steel"},{"hs4":"7309","label":"Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, of iron or steel, for any material \"other than compressed or liquefied gas\", of a capacity of > 300 l, not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment, whether or not lined or heat-insulated (excl. containers specifically constructed or equipped for one or more types of transport)"},{"hs4":"7311","label":"Containers of iron or steel, for compressed or liquefied gas (excl. containers specifically constructed or equipped for one or more types of transport)"},{"hs4":"7611","label":"Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, of aluminium, for any material (other than compressed or liquefied gas), of a capacity of > 300 l, not fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment, whether or not lined or heat-insulated (excl. containers specifically constructed or equipped for one or more types of transport)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":90683555},{"year":2024,"valueEur":92630778},{"year":2025,"valueEur":91766546}]},"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, \"Tanks, reservoirs and containers; central-heating radiators and boilers market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/446-tanks-reservoirs-and-containers-central-heating-ra, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}