{"title":"Insulated wire and cable market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/313-insulated-wire-and-cable","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"313","label":"Insulated wire and cable"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,132 supply contracts for insulated wire and cable through award notices on TED; the 857 of them that state a value (75.7%) add up to €2.66 billion. EU countries together imported €57.5 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to insulated wire and cable in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8544; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 8.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 751 companies have won 3,349 public supply contracts for insulated wire and cable in 30 European countries, in 1,251 award notices from 392 public buyers.","13.5% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Slovakia.","The five companies that win most often hold 17.6% of all awards across Europe.","25.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":3349,"awardNotices":1251,"winningCompanies":751,"publicBuyers":392,"awardsWithValue":2279,"awardedValueEur":4735321887,"localAwards":2898,"foreignAwards":451,"top5Share":0.17647058823529413,"singleBidAwards":750,"awardsWithKnownBids":2948,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":14,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":45619158},{"year":2024,"awards":999,"awardNotices":269,"awardsWithValue":473,"awardedValueEur":883871028},{"year":2025,"awards":1132,"awardNotices":460,"awardsWithValue":857,"awardedValueEur":2663043903},{"year":2026,"awards":1204,"awardNotices":514,"awardsWithValue":937,"awardedValueEur":1142787798}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8544","label":"Insulated \"incl. enamelled or anodised\" wire, cable \"incl. coaxial cable\" and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":52942806279},{"year":2024,"valueEur":52831122647},{"year":2025,"valueEur":57470196405}]},"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, \"Insulated wire and cable market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/313-insulated-wire-and-cable, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}