{"title":"Prepared and preserved fish market in Estonia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ee/152-prepared-and-preserved-fish","scope":"Estonia","category":{"cpvGroup":"152","label":"Prepared and preserved fish"},"updated":"2026-11-11","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Estonia awarded 107 supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish through award notices on TED; the 38 of them that state a value (35.5%) add up to €9.97 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Estonia imported €136 million of goods in the customs headings matched to prepared and preserved fish in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 0304, 1604, 0306, 0307, 0303 and 3 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 9.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 71 companies have won 242 public supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish in Estonia, in 99 award notices from 36 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Estonia.","The five companies that win most often hold 47.1% of all awards.","9.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":242,"awardNotices":99,"winningCompanies":71,"publicBuyers":36,"awardsWithValue":109,"awardedValueEur":25885212,"localAwards":242,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.47107438016528924,"singleBidAwards":24,"awardsWithKnownBids":242,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":4,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":137983},{"year":2024,"awards":67,"awardNotices":34,"awardsWithValue":40,"awardedValueEur":6718341},{"year":2025,"awards":107,"awardNotices":32,"awardsWithValue":38,"awardedValueEur":9973537},{"year":2026,"awards":64,"awardNotices":31,"awardsWithValue":27,"awardedValueEur":9055351}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"0304","label":"Fish fillets and other fish meat, whether or not minced, fresh, chilled or frozen"},{"hs4":"1604","label":"Prepared or preserved fish"},{"hs4":"0306","label":"Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, incl. crustaceans in shell cooked by steaming or by boiling in water"},{"hs4":"0307","label":"Molluscs, fit for human consumption, even smoked, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine"},{"hs4":"0303","label":"Frozen fish (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)"},{"hs4":"0305","label":"Fish, fit for human consumption, dried, salted or in brine"},{"hs4":"1605","label":"Crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (excl. smoked)"},{"hs4":"0308","label":"Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":124825263},{"year":2024,"valueEur":141664990},{"year":2025,"valueEur":136427020}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Estonia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €6.43 billion in 2025, 15.4% 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":6429000000,"percentOfGdp":15.4,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":33.7,"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, \"Prepared and preserved fish market in Estonia\", https://cresques.com/markets/ee/152-prepared-and-preserved-fish, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}