{"title":"Basic inorganic and organic chemicals market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/243-basic-inorganic-and-organic-chemicals","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"243","label":"Basic inorganic and organic chemicals"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 300 supply contracts for basic inorganic and organic chemicals through award notices on TED; the 242 of them that state a value (80.7%) add up to €11.9 million. France imported €4.37 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to basic inorganic and organic chemicals in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2905, 2901, 2902, 2915, 2909 and 8 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 1.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 114 companies have won 485 public supply contracts for basic inorganic and organic chemicals in France, in 113 award notices from 102 public buyers.","99.4% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 43.5% of all awards.","12.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":485,"awardNotices":113,"winningCompanies":114,"publicBuyers":102,"awardsWithValue":350,"awardedValueEur":71434205,"localAwards":482,"foreignAwards":3,"top5Share":0.4350515463917526,"singleBidAwards":58,"awardsWithKnownBids":466,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":94,"awardNotices":41,"awardsWithValue":80,"awardedValueEur":44109962},{"year":2025,"awards":300,"awardNotices":43,"awardsWithValue":242,"awardedValueEur":11911849},{"year":2026,"awards":91,"awardNotices":29,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":15412395}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2905","label":"Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives"},{"hs4":"2901","label":"Acyclic hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2902","label":"Cyclic hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2915","label":"Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids"},{"hs4":"2909","label":"Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxide, ketone peroxides, whether or not chemically defined, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives"},{"hs4":"2917","label":"Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids"},{"hs4":"2921","label":"Amine-function compounds"},{"hs4":"2815","label":"Sodium hydroxide \"caustic soda\", potassium hydroxide \"caustic potash\""},{"hs4":"2914","label":"Ketones and quinones, whether or not with other oxygen function, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives"},{"hs4":"2809","label":"Diphosphorus pentaoxide"},{"hs4":"2801","label":"Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine"},{"hs4":"2807","label":"Sulphuric acid"},{"hs4":"2806","label":"Hydrogen chloride \"hydrochloric acid\""}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4459190609},{"year":2024,"valueEur":4480265910},{"year":2025,"valueEur":4373086748}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in France — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €486 billion in 2025, 16.2% 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":485827000000,"percentOfGdp":16.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.3,"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, \"Basic inorganic and organic chemicals market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/243-basic-inorganic-and-organic-chemicals, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}