{"title":"Instruments for checking physical characteristics market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/384-instruments-for-checking-physical-characteristics","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"384","label":"Instruments for checking physical characteristics"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 310 supply contracts for instruments for checking physical characteristics through award notices on TED; the 132 of them that state a value (42.6%) add up to €98.6 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €7.88 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to instruments for checking physical characteristics in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9027, 9026 and 9025; all buyers, not only public ones), up 0.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 404 companies have won 972 public supply contracts for instruments for checking physical characteristics in Germany, in 817 award notices from 355 public buyers.","89.8% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.","The five companies that win most often hold 18.3% of all awards.","65.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":972,"awardNotices":817,"winningCompanies":404,"publicBuyers":355,"awardsWithValue":413,"awardedValueEur":217521185,"localAwards":873,"foreignAwards":99,"top5Share":0.1831275720164609,"singleBidAwards":627,"awardsWithKnownBids":951,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":27,"awardNotices":24,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":2706059},{"year":2024,"awards":270,"awardNotices":224,"awardsWithValue":95,"awardedValueEur":50096325},{"year":2025,"awards":310,"awardNotices":283,"awardsWithValue":132,"awardedValueEur":98607111},{"year":2026,"awards":365,"awardNotices":286,"awardsWithValue":180,"awardedValueEur":66111691}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9027","label":"Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, e.g. polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus"},{"hs4":"9026","label":"Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, e.g. flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters (excl. instruments and apparatus of heading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032)"},{"hs4":"9025","label":"Hydrometers, areometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":7856940089},{"year":2024,"valueEur":7723543869},{"year":2025,"valueEur":7881329777}]},"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, \"Instruments for checking physical characteristics market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/384-instruments-for-checking-physical-characteristics, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}