{"title":"Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/429-miscellaneous-general-and-special-purpose-machiner","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"429","label":"Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 286 supply contracts for miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery through award notices on TED; the 104 of them that state a value (36.4%) add up to €48.6 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €9.13 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8479, 8422, 8423, 8476, 8420 and 8405; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 599 companies have won 872 public supply contracts for miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery in Germany, in 738 award notices from 286 public buyers.","87.7% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Switzerland.","The five companies that win most often hold 6% of all awards.","48.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":872,"awardNotices":738,"winningCompanies":599,"publicBuyers":286,"awardsWithValue":265,"awardedValueEur":177410730,"localAwards":765,"foreignAwards":107,"top5Share":0.05963302752293578,"singleBidAwards":422,"awardsWithKnownBids":865,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":37,"awardNotices":31,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":1419820},{"year":2024,"awards":273,"awardNotices":241,"awardsWithValue":70,"awardedValueEur":47444840},{"year":2025,"awards":286,"awardNotices":228,"awardsWithValue":104,"awardedValueEur":48578881},{"year":2026,"awards":276,"awardNotices":238,"awardsWithValue":89,"awardedValueEur":79967189}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8479","label":"Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter"},{"hs4":"8422","label":"Dishwashing machines"},{"hs4":"8423","label":"Weighing machinery, incl. weight-operated counting or checking machines (excl. balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better)"},{"hs4":"8476","label":"Automatic goods-vending machines, e.g. postage stamp, cigarette, food or beverage machines, incl. money-changing machines"},{"hs4":"8420","label":"Calendering or other rolling machines (other than for metals or glass) and cylinders therefor"},{"hs4":"8405","label":"Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":8611067264},{"year":2024,"valueEur":8638109108},{"year":2025,"valueEur":9128999212}]},"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, \"Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/429-miscellaneous-general-and-special-purpose-machiner, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}