{"title":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"325","label":"Telecommunications 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 1,816 supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies through award notices on TED; the 1,348 of them that state a value (74.2%) add up to €1.59 billion. EU countries together imported €155 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to telecommunications equipment and supplies in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8517; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 2.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 2,085 companies have won 4,804 public supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies in 30 European countries, in 2,962 award notices from 1,424 public buyers.","4.1% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 4% of all awards across Europe.","32.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":4804,"awardNotices":2962,"winningCompanies":2085,"publicBuyers":1424,"awardsWithValue":3527,"awardedValueEur":4181697179,"localAwards":4607,"foreignAwards":197,"top5Share":0.03996669442131557,"singleBidAwards":1473,"awardsWithKnownBids":4497,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":55,"awardNotices":44,"awardsWithValue":50,"awardedValueEur":28511863},{"year":2024,"awards":1329,"awardNotices":789,"awardsWithValue":883,"awardedValueEur":1168904140},{"year":2025,"awards":1816,"awardNotices":1147,"awardsWithValue":1348,"awardedValueEur":1585275171},{"year":2026,"awards":1604,"awardNotices":982,"awardsWithValue":1246,"awardedValueEur":1399006005}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8517","label":"Telephone sets, incl. telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":158608557968},{"year":2024,"valueEur":154317861040},{"year":2025,"valueEur":154717317870}]},"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, \"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}