{"title":"Weapons, ammunition and associated parts market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/353-weapons-ammunition-and-associated-parts","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"353","label":"Weapons, ammunition and associated parts"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 74 supply contracts for weapons, ammunition and associated parts through award notices on TED; the 1 of them that state a value (1.4%) add up to €1.21 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €321 million of goods in the customs headings matched to weapons, ammunition and associated parts in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9306, 9304, 9301, 9305, 9303 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 23% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 58 companies have won 244 public supply contracts for weapons, ammunition and associated parts in Germany, in 133 award notices from 28 public buyers.","94.3% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Italy.","The five companies that win most often hold 45.1% of all awards.","60.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":244,"awardNotices":133,"winningCompanies":58,"publicBuyers":28,"awardsWithValue":22,"awardedValueEur":22222919,"localAwards":230,"foreignAwards":14,"top5Share":0.45081967213114754,"singleBidAwards":147,"awardsWithKnownBids":243,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":105,"awardNotices":45,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":3571657},{"year":2025,"awards":74,"awardNotices":44,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":1213061},{"year":2026,"awards":64,"awardNotices":43,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":17438201}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9306","label":"Bombs, grenades, torpedos, mines, missiles, cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, incl. buckshot, shot and cartridge wads, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"9304","label":"Spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons and other non-firearms (excl. swords, cutlasses, bayonettes and similar arms of heading 9307)"},{"hs4":"9301","label":"Military weapons, incl. sub-machine guns (excl. revolvers and pistols of heading 9302 and cutting and thrusting weapons of heading 9307)(2002-2500)"},{"hs4":"9305","label":"Parts and accessories for weapons and the like of heading 9301 to 9304, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"9303","label":"Firearms and similar devices which operate by the firing of an explosive charge, e.g. sporting shotguns and rifles, muzzle-loading firearms, Very pistols and other devices designed to project signal flares only, pistols and revolvers for firing blank ammunition, captive-bolt humane killers and line-throwing guns (excl. revolvers and pistols of heading 9302 and military weapons)"},{"hs4":"9302","label":"Revolvers and pistols (excl. those of heading 9303 or 9304 and sub-machine guns for military purposes)"},{"hs4":"9307","label":"Swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms and parts thereof, and scabbards and sheaths therefor (excl. of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal, blunt weapons for fencing, hunting knives and daggers, camping knives and other knives of heading 8211, sword belts and the like of leather or textile materials, and sword knots)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":416817398},{"year":2024,"valueEur":287711802},{"year":2025,"valueEur":320930339}]},"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.","General government spending on goods, services and investment for defence in Germany came to €31.9 billion in 2024 (Eurostat, COFOG). How much of it reaches suppliers through tenders depends on how the country organises the sector — for example whether statutory health insurance is classified in government.","General government spending on goods, services and investment for public order and safety in Germany came to €24.6 billion in 2024 (Eurostat, COFOG). How much of it reaches suppliers through tenders depends on how the country organises the sector — for example whether statutory health insurance is classified in government."],"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":[{"text":"The European Defence Agency puts EU Member States' defence spending at €418 billion in 2025, 2.2% of GDP.","source":"European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2025-2026","url":"https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-publications/2026-eda_defencedata_webpublic.pdf","referenceYear":2025},{"text":"The European Defence Agency puts defence equipment procurement by EU Member States at €115 billion in 2025, up 26% in real terms.","source":"European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2025-2026","url":"https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-publications/2026-eda_defencedata_webpublic.pdf","referenceYear":2025}],"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, \"Weapons, ammunition and associated parts market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/353-weapons-ammunition-and-associated-parts, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}