{"title":"Stone for construction, limestone, gypsum and slate market in Spain","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/es/449-stone-for-construction-limestone-gypsum-and-slate","scope":"Spain","category":{"cpvGroup":"449","label":"Stone for construction, limestone, gypsum and slate"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Spain awarded 6 supply contracts for stone for construction, limestone, gypsum and slate through award notices on TED; the 6 of them that state a value (100%) add up to €408,785. Spain imported €193 million of goods in the customs headings matched to stone for construction, limestone, gypsum and slate in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 6802, 2522, 2520, 2516, 6803 and 5 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 32 companies have won 43 public supply contracts for stone for construction, limestone, gypsum and slate in Spain, in 30 award notices from 14 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Spain.","The five companies that win most often hold 25.6% of all awards.","28.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":43,"awardNotices":30,"winningCompanies":32,"publicBuyers":14,"awardsWithValue":43,"awardedValueEur":3456332,"localAwards":43,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.2558139534883721,"singleBidAwards":12,"awardsWithKnownBids":42,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":16,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":16,"awardedValueEur":407585},{"year":2024,"awards":13,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":13,"awardedValueEur":1341558},{"year":2025,"awards":6,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":408785},{"year":2026,"awards":8,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":1298404}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"6802","label":"Monumental or building stone, natural (excl. slate), worked, and articles"},{"hs4":"2522","label":"Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime (excl. pure calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide)"},{"hs4":"2520","label":"Gypsum"},{"hs4":"2516","label":"Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape (excl. in the form of granules, chippings or powder, or already with the characteristics of setts, curbstones and flagstones, and monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of >= 2,5)"},{"hs4":"6803","label":"Worked slate and articles of slate or of agglomerated slate (excl. slate granules, chippings and powder, mosaic cubes and the like, slate pencils, and ready-to-use slates or boards with writing or drawing surfaces)"},{"hs4":"6801","label":"Setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (excl. slate)"},{"hs4":"2515","label":"Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of >= 2,5, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape (excl. in the form of granules, chippings or powder)"},{"hs4":"2521","label":"Limestone flux"},{"hs4":"2509","label":"Chalk"},{"hs4":"2514","label":"Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a square or rectangular shape"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":180759700},{"year":2024,"valueEur":170343103},{"year":2025,"valueEur":192716984}]},"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, \"Stone for construction, limestone, gypsum and slate market in Spain\", https://cresques.com/markets/es/449-stone-for-construction-limestone-gypsum-and-slate, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}