{"title":"Mining equipment market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/431-mining-equipment","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"431","label":"Mining equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 229 supply contracts for mining equipment through award notices on TED; the 213 of them that state a value (93%) add up to €330 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 273 companies have won 741 public supply contracts for mining equipment in 30 European countries, in 334 award notices from 97 public buyers.","9.6% 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 21.5% of all awards across Europe.","42.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":741,"awardNotices":334,"winningCompanies":273,"publicBuyers":97,"awardsWithValue":649,"awardedValueEur":1269538134,"localAwards":670,"foreignAwards":71,"top5Share":0.2145748987854251,"singleBidAwards":294,"awardsWithKnownBids":687,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":10,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":1045237},{"year":2024,"awards":290,"awardNotices":119,"awardsWithValue":249,"awardedValueEur":745721981},{"year":2025,"awards":229,"awardNotices":105,"awardsWithValue":213,"awardedValueEur":330364511},{"year":2026,"awards":212,"awardNotices":105,"awardsWithValue":185,"awardedValueEur":192406405}]},"imports":null,"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, \"Mining equipment market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/431-mining-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}