{"title":"Recruitment services market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/796-recruitment-services","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"796","label":"Recruitment services"},"updated":"2026-11-10","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 126 supply contracts for recruitment services through award notices on TED; the 126 of them that state a value (100%) add up to €37.9 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 66 companies have won 323 public supply contracts for recruitment services in Bulgaria, in 92 award notices from 8 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria.","The five companies that win most often hold 44% of all awards.","60.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":323,"awardNotices":92,"winningCompanies":66,"publicBuyers":8,"awardsWithValue":323,"awardedValueEur":72921084,"localAwards":323,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.43962848297213625,"singleBidAwards":194,"awardsWithKnownBids":323,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":149,"awardNotices":34,"awardsWithValue":149,"awardedValueEur":12031120},{"year":2025,"awards":126,"awardNotices":36,"awardsWithValue":126,"awardedValueEur":37858711},{"year":2026,"awards":48,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":48,"awardedValueEur":23031253}]},"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, \"Recruitment services market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/796-recruitment-services, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 10 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}