{"title":"Geological and geophysical instruments market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/382-geological-and-geophysical-instruments","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"382","label":"Geological and geophysical instruments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 270 supply contracts for geological and geophysical instruments through award notices on TED; the 165 of them that state a value (61.1%) add up to €72.9 million. EU countries together imported €2.35 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to geological and geophysical instruments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9015; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 9.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 468 companies have won 741 public supply contracts for geological and geophysical instruments in 30 European countries, in 499 award notices from 313 public buyers.","20.5% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is France.","The five companies that win most often hold 7% of all awards across Europe.","55.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":741,"awardNotices":499,"winningCompanies":468,"publicBuyers":313,"awardsWithValue":535,"awardedValueEur":274586828,"localAwards":589,"foreignAwards":152,"top5Share":0.07017543859649122,"singleBidAwards":339,"awardsWithKnownBids":615,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":12,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":3057080},{"year":2024,"awards":187,"awardNotices":143,"awardsWithValue":129,"awardedValueEur":107196833},{"year":2025,"awards":270,"awardNotices":163,"awardsWithValue":165,"awardedValueEur":72945307},{"year":2026,"awards":272,"awardNotices":181,"awardsWithValue":232,"awardedValueEur":91387609}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9015","label":"Surveying, incl. photogrammetrical surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances (excl. compasses)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2154448154},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2193666977},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2352977363}]},"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, \"Geological and geophysical instruments market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/382-geological-and-geophysical-instruments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}