{"title":"Library, archives, museums and other cultural services market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/925-library-archives-museums-and-other-cultural-servic","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"925","label":"Library, archives, museums and other cultural services"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 67 supply contracts for library, archives, museums and other cultural services through award notices on TED; the 49 of them that state a value (73.1%) add up to €19.5 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 99 companies have won 144 public supply contracts for library, archives, museums and other cultural services in 30 European countries, in 97 award notices from 59 public buyers.","38.2% 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 24.3% of all awards across Europe.","24.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":144,"awardNotices":97,"winningCompanies":99,"publicBuyers":59,"awardsWithValue":94,"awardedValueEur":32811417,"localAwards":89,"foreignAwards":55,"top5Share":0.24305555555555555,"singleBidAwards":26,"awardsWithKnownBids":108,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":49,"awardNotices":32,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":5692691},{"year":2025,"awards":67,"awardNotices":42,"awardsWithValue":49,"awardedValueEur":19459849},{"year":2026,"awards":27,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":24,"awardedValueEur":7658877}]},"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, \"Library, archives, museums and other cultural services market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/925-library-archives-museums-and-other-cultural-servic, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}