{"title":"Musical instruments and parts market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/373-musical-instruments-and-parts","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"373","label":"Musical instruments and parts"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 66 supply contracts for musical instruments and parts through award notices on TED; the 21 of them that state a value (31.8%) add up to €488,266, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €274 million of goods in the customs headings matched to musical instruments and parts in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9207, 9209, 9202, 9205, 9206 and 2 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 13.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 69 companies have won 150 public supply contracts for musical instruments and parts in France, in 38 award notices from 34 public buyers.","99.3% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Belgium.","The five companies that win most often hold 25.3% of all awards.","23.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":150,"awardNotices":38,"winningCompanies":69,"publicBuyers":34,"awardsWithValue":63,"awardedValueEur":3855663,"localAwards":149,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.25333333333333335,"singleBidAwards":29,"awardsWithKnownBids":124,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":64,"awardNotices":17,"awardsWithValue":38,"awardedValueEur":3342397},{"year":2025,"awards":66,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":488266},{"year":2026,"awards":20,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":25000}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9207","label":"Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically, e.g. organs, guitars, accordions"},{"hs4":"9209","label":"Parts and accessories for musical instruments, e.g. mechanisms for musical boxes, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments, n.e.s"},{"hs4":"9202","label":"String musical instruments, e.g. guitars, violins, and harps (excl. with keyboard)"},{"hs4":"9205","label":"Wind musical instruments \"e.g. clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes, keyboard pipe organs, harmoniums and similar keyboard instruments with free metal reeds, accordions and similar instruments, mouth organs\""},{"hs4":"9206","label":"Percussion musical instruments, e.g. drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas"},{"hs4":"9201","label":"Pianos, incl. automatic"},{"hs4":"9208","label":"Musical boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading in chapter 92"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":316841902},{"year":2024,"valueEur":297311272},{"year":2025,"valueEur":274430259}]},"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, \"Musical instruments and parts market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/373-musical-instruments-and-parts, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}