Miscellaneous business and business-related services market in Europe: size, suppliers and public contracts
Market size and key facts
In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 268 supply contracts for miscellaneous business and business-related services through award notices on TED; the 157 of them that state a value (58.6%) add up to €225 million.
- Since November 2023, 478 companies have won 818 public supply contracts for miscellaneous business and business-related services in 30 European countries, in 422 award notices from 313 public buyers.
- 8.2% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.
- The five companies that win most often hold 8.9% of all awards across Europe.
- 23.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid.
In proportion
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.
Source: Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), retrieved 9 November 2026.
Updated · counted daily from contract award notices on TED and Eurostat international trade data · figures as JSON · free to quote with attribution (CC BY 4.0)
How to cite: Cresques, "Miscellaneous business and business-related services market in Europe", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/799-miscellaneous-business-and-business-related-servic, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
CPV group 799 across the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein: how much public buyers award, who wins, where from, and how the market splits by country.
The market in numbers
Public supply contracts in Europe: award notices published on TED from 2023-11 to 2026-11, by publication year.
- Contracts awarded
- 818
- in 422 award notices
- Awarded value
- €402.5M
- from 49% of awards with a published value
- Winning companies
- 478
- with at least one award
- Public buyers
- 313
- hospitals, cities, agencies
Table view
| Nov–Dec 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 258 |
| 2025 | 268 |
| 2026 | 287 |
Table view
| Nov–Dec 2023 | €963.4K |
| 2024 | €52.3M |
| 2025 | €225.1M |
| 2026 | €124M |
- Other14
Table view
| Cities, regions and central administration | 556 |
| Universities, schools and research | 78 |
| Hospitals and health services | 70 |
| Culture, sport and religion | 52 |
| Economic affairs | 28 |
| Social protection | 9 |
| Police, fire services and prisons | 6 |
| Urban transport operators | 4 |
| Other | 14 |
- Sweden20964 companies
- France10477 companies
- Poland8950 companies
- Spain5945 companies
- Czechia5926 companies
- Romania5739 companies
- Ireland5532 companies
- Finland2816 companies
- Greece2819 companies
- Netherlands2720 companies
Table view
| Sweden | 209 |
| France | 104 |
| Poland | 89 |
| Spain | 59 |
| Czechia | 59 |
| Romania | 57 |
| Ireland | 55 |
| Finland | 28 |
| Greece | 28 |
| Netherlands | 27 |
- Large companies
- Medium-sized
- Small
- Micro
- SME (size not stated)
- Size not stated
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| Large companies | 155 · 18.9% |
| Medium-sized | 68 · 8.3% |
| Small | 156 · 19.1% |
| Micro | 27 · 3.3% |
| SME (size not stated) | 172 · 21% |
| Size not stated | 240 · 29.3% |
- United Kingdom28
- Finland11
- Germany10
- Netherlands7
- Italy4
- France2
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| United Kingdom | 28 |
| Finland | 11 |
| Germany | 10 |
| Netherlands | 7 |
| Italy | 4 |
| France | 2 |
Awards to companies registered in the buyer's own country
91.8%
67 awards went to companies registered elsewhere.
Share of the 5 biggest winners
8.9%
Of all awards; a high share means a concentrated market.
Lots with a single bid
23.9%
Among 754 awards whose notice states the number of tenders.
How we count: one award per procedure, lot and winning company, from live contract award notices; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market. Values are the awarded amounts published in the notice (framework ceilings and estimates are never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Company size is the SME flag of the notice (eForms BT-165). Read the methodology.
Country pages
Countries with fewer than 25 winning companies in this group have no separate page; their awards are counted above.
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Questions
- How big is the miscellaneous business and business-related services market in Europe?
- In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 268 supply contracts for miscellaneous business and business-related services through award notices on TED; the 157 of them that state a value (58.6%) add up to €225 million.
- How many public contracts for miscellaneous business and business-related services are awarded in Europe?
- Since November 2023 public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 818 supply contracts for miscellaneous business and business-related services in 422 TED award notices; the 398 awards with a published value add up to €402.5M.
- Which countries buy the most miscellaneous business and business-related services through public tenders?
- Sweden (209 awards), France (104 awards), Poland (89 awards) lead; 478 companies won at least one award across Europe.
- How often do foreign suppliers win miscellaneous business and business-related services contracts?
- 8.2% of the awards went to a company registered in another country than the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.
Source: contract award notices on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu), © European Union, published since November 2023; processed by Cresques. Numbers updated 2026-11-13.