{"title":"Checking and testing apparatus market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/385-checking-and-testing-apparatus","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"385","label":"Checking and testing apparatus"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 3,114 supply contracts for checking and testing apparatus through award notices on TED; the 2,422 of them that state a value (77.8%) add up to €1.94 billion. EU countries together imported €30.9 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to checking and testing apparatus in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9031, 9032, 9028, 9029, 9012 and 2 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 4.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 3,108 companies have won 8,433 public supply contracts for checking and testing apparatus in 30 European countries, in 5,415 award notices from 1,979 public buyers.","12.5% 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 2.9% of all awards across Europe.","52.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":8433,"awardNotices":5415,"winningCompanies":3108,"publicBuyers":1979,"awardsWithValue":6758,"awardedValueEur":4993536094,"localAwards":7382,"foreignAwards":1051,"top5Share":0.02928969524487134,"singleBidAwards":4069,"awardsWithKnownBids":7739,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":106,"awardNotices":72,"awardsWithValue":66,"awardedValueEur":42099228},{"year":2024,"awards":2283,"awardNotices":1406,"awardsWithValue":1765,"awardedValueEur":1553390921},{"year":2025,"awards":3114,"awardNotices":2013,"awardsWithValue":2422,"awardedValueEur":1942719041},{"year":2026,"awards":2930,"awardNotices":1924,"awardsWithValue":2505,"awardedValueEur":1455326904}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9031","label":"Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines not elsewhere specified in chapter 90"},{"hs4":"9032","label":"Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus (excl. taps, cocks and valves of heading 8481)"},{"hs4":"9028","label":"Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, incl. calibrating meters therefor"},{"hs4":"9029","label":"Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, milometers, pedometers and the like (excl. gas, liquid and electricity meters)"},{"hs4":"9012","label":"Electron microscopes, proton microscopes and diffraction apparatus"},{"hs4":"9011","label":"Optical microscopes, incl. those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection (excl. binocular microscopes for ophthalmology and instruments, appliances and machines of heading 9031)"},{"hs4":"9024","label":"Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials, e.g. metals, wood, textiles, paper or plastics"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":32331878414},{"year":2024,"valueEur":31385410336},{"year":2025,"valueEur":30894378097}]},"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, \"Checking and testing apparatus market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/385-checking-and-testing-apparatus, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}