{"title":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"325","label":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 92 supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies through award notices on TED; the 25 of them that state a value (27.2%) add up to €23.2 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €24.6 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to telecommunications equipment and supplies in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8517; all buyers, not only public ones), down 4.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 179 companies have won 267 public supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies in Germany, in 204 award notices from 143 public buyers.","95.1% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Sweden.","The five companies that win most often hold 14.6% of all awards.","39.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":267,"awardNotices":204,"winningCompanies":179,"publicBuyers":143,"awardsWithValue":68,"awardedValueEur":46842486,"localAwards":254,"foreignAwards":13,"top5Share":0.14606741573033707,"singleBidAwards":103,"awardsWithKnownBids":260,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":101,"awardNotices":74,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":9996069},{"year":2025,"awards":92,"awardNotices":75,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":23181904},{"year":2026,"awards":71,"awardNotices":52,"awardsWithValue":22,"awardedValueEur":13664512}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8517","label":"Telephone sets, incl. telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":25665337333},{"year":2024,"valueEur":24094242802},{"year":2025,"valueEur":24600172645}]},"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, \"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}