{"title":"Geological and geophysical instruments market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/382-geological-and-geophysical-instruments","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"382","label":"Geological and geophysical instruments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 29 supply contracts for geological and geophysical instruments through award notices on TED; the 15 of them that state a value (51.7%) add up to €2.2 million. France imported €291 million of goods in the customs headings matched to geological and geophysical instruments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9015; all buyers, not only public ones), down 3.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 46 companies have won 72 public supply contracts for geological and geophysical instruments in France, in 49 award notices from 28 public buyers.","88.9% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is United States.","The five companies that win most often hold 30.6% of all awards.","51.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":72,"awardNotices":49,"winningCompanies":46,"publicBuyers":28,"awardsWithValue":39,"awardedValueEur":9941344,"localAwards":64,"foreignAwards":8,"top5Share":0.3055555555555556,"singleBidAwards":33,"awardsWithKnownBids":64,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":13,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":1347629},{"year":2025,"awards":29,"awardNotices":18,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":2199334},{"year":2026,"awards":30,"awardNotices":19,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":6394380}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9015","label":"Surveying, incl. photogrammetrical surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances (excl. compasses)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":303165133},{"year":2024,"valueEur":283102507},{"year":2025,"valueEur":291291220}]},"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, \"Geological and geophysical instruments market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/382-geological-and-geophysical-instruments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}