{"title":"Cable, wire and related products market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/443-cable-wire-and-related-products","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"443","label":"Cable, wire and related products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 315 supply contracts for cable, wire and related products through award notices on TED; the 106 of them that state a value (33.7%) add up to €27.2 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €4.53 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to cable, wire and related products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 7604, 7408, 7216, 7214, 7213 and 7 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 7.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 219 companies have won 784 public supply contracts for cable, wire and related products in France, in 362 award notices from 333 public buyers.","99.9% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Spain.","The five companies that win most often hold 46.4% of all awards.","15.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":784,"awardNotices":362,"winningCompanies":219,"publicBuyers":333,"awardsWithValue":320,"awardedValueEur":87072166,"localAwards":783,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.4642857142857143,"singleBidAwards":112,"awardsWithKnownBids":713,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":224,"awardNotices":109,"awardsWithValue":162,"awardedValueEur":49642906},{"year":2025,"awards":315,"awardNotices":134,"awardsWithValue":106,"awardedValueEur":27180631},{"year":2026,"awards":245,"awardNotices":119,"awardsWithValue":52,"awardedValueEur":10248629}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"7604","label":"Bars, rods and profiles, of aluminium, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7408","label":"Copper wire (excl. surgical sutures, stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like and other articles of heading 7413, electrically insulated wires and strings for musical instruments)"},{"hs4":"7216","label":"Angles, shapes and sections of iron or non-alloy steel, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7214","label":"Bars and rods, of iron or non-alloy steel, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or hot-extruded, but incl. those twisted after rolling (excl. in irregularly wound coils)"},{"hs4":"7213","label":"Bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils"},{"hs4":"7217","label":"Wire of iron or non-alloy steel, in coils (excl. bars and rods)"},{"hs4":"7314","label":"Cloth, incl. endless bands, grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire, expanded metal of iron or steel (excl. woven products of metal fibres of a kind used for cladding, lining or similar purposes)"},{"hs4":"7312","label":"Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel (excl. electrically insulated products and twisted fencing wire and barbed wire)"},{"hs4":"7605","label":"Aluminium wire (excl. stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like and other articles of heading 7614, electrically insulated wires, and strings for musical instruments)"},{"hs4":"7413","label":"Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of copper (excl. electrically insulated products)"},{"hs4":"7614","label":"Stranded wire, cables, plaited bands and the like, of aluminium (excl. such products electrically insulated)"},{"hs4":"7313","label":"Barbed wire of iron or steel"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4923816703},{"year":2024,"valueEur":4507853002},{"year":2025,"valueEur":4534285179}]},"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, \"Cable, wire and related products market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/443-cable-wire-and-related-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}