{"title":"Prepared and preserved fish market in Spain","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/es/152-prepared-and-preserved-fish","scope":"Spain","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 Spain awarded 175 supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish through award notices on TED; the 173 of them that state a value (98.9%) add up to €32.2 million. Spain imported €7.75 billion 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 16.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 86 companies have won 345 public supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish in Spain, in 147 award notices from 52 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Spain.","The five companies that win most often hold 47.2% of all awards.","28.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":345,"awardNotices":147,"winningCompanies":86,"publicBuyers":52,"awardsWithValue":322,"awardedValueEur":56272554,"localAwards":345,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.47246376811594204,"singleBidAwards":95,"awardsWithKnownBids":336,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":22,"awardNotices":19,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":5480698},{"year":2024,"awards":86,"awardNotices":37,"awardsWithValue":76,"awardedValueEur":10660944},{"year":2025,"awards":175,"awardNotices":58,"awardsWithValue":173,"awardedValueEur":32214802},{"year":2026,"awards":62,"awardNotices":33,"awardsWithValue":52,"awardedValueEur":7916110}]},"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":6660710482},{"year":2024,"valueEur":6965052224},{"year":2025,"valueEur":7747624681}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Spain — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €192 billion in 2025, 11.3% 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":191764000000,"percentOfGdp":11.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":25,"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 Spain\", https://cresques.com/markets/es/152-prepared-and-preserved-fish, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 11 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}