{"title":"Canteen and catering services market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/555-canteen-and-catering-services","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"555","label":"Canteen and catering services"},"updated":"2026-11-10","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 29 supply contracts for canteen and catering services through award notices on TED; the 9 of them that state a value (31%) add up to €3.99 million, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 52 companies have won 79 public supply contracts for canteen and catering services in France, in 47 award notices from 45 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in France.","The five companies that win most often hold 25.3% of all awards.","20.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":79,"awardNotices":47,"winningCompanies":52,"publicBuyers":45,"awardsWithValue":41,"awardedValueEur":20364095,"localAwards":79,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.25316455696202533,"singleBidAwards":15,"awardsWithKnownBids":72,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":24,"awardNotices":17,"awardsWithValue":20,"awardedValueEur":9859568},{"year":2025,"awards":29,"awardNotices":18,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":3992206},{"year":2026,"awards":26,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":6512321}]},"imports":null,"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, \"Canteen and catering services market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/555-canteen-and-catering-services, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 10 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}