{"title":"Miscellaneous business and business-related services market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/799-miscellaneous-business-and-business-related-servic","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"799","label":"Miscellaneous business and business-related services"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"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.","facts":["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."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":818,"awardNotices":422,"winningCompanies":478,"publicBuyers":313,"awardsWithValue":398,"awardedValueEur":402486763,"localAwards":751,"foreignAwards":67,"top5Share":0.08924205378973105,"singleBidAwards":180,"awardsWithKnownBids":754,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":5,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":963363},{"year":2024,"awards":258,"awardNotices":109,"awardsWithValue":96,"awardedValueEur":52341682},{"year":2025,"awards":268,"awardNotices":173,"awardsWithValue":157,"awardedValueEur":225143948},{"year":2026,"awards":287,"awardNotices":135,"awardsWithValue":142,"awardedValueEur":124037769}]},"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, \"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."}