{"title":"Fuels market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/091-fuels","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"091","label":"Fuels"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 900 supply contracts for fuels through award notices on TED; the 227 of them that state a value (25.2%) add up to €591 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €27.9 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to fuels in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2710, 2711, 2701, 2704, 2703 and 3 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 28.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 384 companies have won 1,877 public supply contracts for fuels in Germany, in 925 award notices from 679 public buyers.","97.2% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 16.7% of all awards.","18.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1877,"awardNotices":925,"winningCompanies":384,"publicBuyers":679,"awardsWithValue":573,"awardedValueEur":988491318,"localAwards":1825,"foreignAwards":52,"top5Share":0.16728822589238146,"singleBidAwards":344,"awardsWithKnownBids":1870,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":24,"awardNotices":24,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":15604154},{"year":2024,"awards":523,"awardNotices":288,"awardsWithValue":113,"awardedValueEur":159702717},{"year":2025,"awards":900,"awardNotices":357,"awardsWithValue":227,"awardedValueEur":590905212},{"year":2026,"awards":430,"awardNotices":256,"awardsWithValue":226,"awardedValueEur":222279235}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2710","label":"Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (excl. crude)"},{"hs4":"2711","label":"Petroleum gas and other gaseous hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2701","label":"Coal"},{"hs4":"2704","label":"Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"2703","label":"Peat, incl. peat litter, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"4402","label":"Wood charcoal, incl. shell or nut charcoal, whether or not agglomerated (excl. wood charcoal used as a medicament, charcoal mixed with incense, activated charcoal and charcoal in the form of crayons)"},{"hs4":"2702","label":"Lignite, whether or not agglomerated (excl. jet)"},{"hs4":"2705","label":"Coal gas, water gas, producer gas, lean gas and similar gases (excl. petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":39326328273},{"year":2024,"valueEur":31547523184},{"year":2025,"valueEur":27943017110}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Germany — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €864 billion in 2025, 19.1% 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":863609000000,"percentOfGdp":19.1,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":38,"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, \"Fuels market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/091-fuels, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}