{"title":"Harvesting machinery market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/163-harvesting-machinery","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"163","label":"Harvesting machinery"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 302 supply contracts for harvesting machinery through award notices on TED; the 207 of them that state a value (68.5%) add up to €42.1 million. EU countries together imported €12 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to harvesting machinery in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8433; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 6.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 476 companies have won 832 public supply contracts for harvesting machinery in 30 European countries, in 425 award notices from 284 public buyers.","1.8% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 5.8% of all awards across Europe.","24.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":832,"awardNotices":425,"winningCompanies":476,"publicBuyers":284,"awardsWithValue":517,"awardedValueEur":118037271,"localAwards":817,"foreignAwards":15,"top5Share":0.057692307692307696,"singleBidAwards":186,"awardsWithKnownBids":748,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":9,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":1071258},{"year":2024,"awards":271,"awardNotices":132,"awardsWithValue":140,"awardedValueEur":42130782},{"year":2025,"awards":302,"awardNotices":139,"awardsWithValue":207,"awardedValueEur":42050027},{"year":2026,"awards":250,"awardNotices":146,"awardsWithValue":164,"awardedValueEur":32785203}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8433","label":"Harvesting or threshing machinery, incl. straw or fodder balers"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":12812865539},{"year":2024,"valueEur":10618210711},{"year":2025,"valueEur":11975788152}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% 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":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"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, \"Harvesting machinery market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/163-harvesting-machinery, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}