{"title":"Computer equipment and supplies market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/302-computer-equipment-and-supplies","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"302","label":"Computer equipment and supplies"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 15,399 supply contracts for computer equipment and supplies through award notices on TED; the 12,368 of them that state a value (80.3%) add up to €8.74 billion. EU countries together imported €184 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to computer equipment and supplies in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8471 and 8473; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 32.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 6,982 companies have won 43,185 public supply contracts for computer equipment and supplies in 30 European countries, in 20,496 award notices from 6,732 public buyers.","1% 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 6.4% of all awards across Europe.","28.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":43185,"awardNotices":20496,"winningCompanies":6982,"publicBuyers":6732,"awardsWithValue":34016,"awardedValueEur":22711530396,"localAwards":42741,"foreignAwards":444,"top5Share":0.06400370499015862,"singleBidAwards":11618,"awardsWithKnownBids":40815,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":610,"awardNotices":292,"awardsWithValue":414,"awardedValueEur":216942250},{"year":2024,"awards":12449,"awardNotices":5634,"awardsWithValue":9001,"awardedValueEur":4675985987},{"year":2025,"awards":15399,"awardNotices":7454,"awardsWithValue":12368,"awardedValueEur":8738109628},{"year":2026,"awards":14727,"awardNotices":7116,"awardsWithValue":12233,"awardedValueEur":9080492531}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8471","label":"Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof"},{"hs4":"8473","label":"Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of heading 8469 to 8472, n.e.s."}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":138322583525},{"year":2024,"valueEur":158195706560},{"year":2025,"valueEur":183842025046}]},"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":[{"text":"Investment in ICT equipment across the whole EU economy reached €140.2 billion in 2025, up from €131.7 billion in 2024 (Eurostat national accounts).","source":"Eurostat, Cross-classification of gross fixed capital formation by industry and by asset (nama_10_an6)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/nama_10_an6?geo=EU27_2020&unit=CP_MEUR&asset10=N1132G&asset10=N1131G&time=2023&time=2024&time=2025&lang=en","referenceYear":2025}],"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, \"Computer equipment and supplies market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/302-computer-equipment-and-supplies, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}