{"title":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Croatia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/hr/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies","scope":"Croatia","category":{"cpvGroup":"325","label":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Croatia awarded 19 supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies through award notices on TED; the 19 of them that state a value (100%) add up to €17.8 million. Croatia imported €684 million of goods in the customs headings matched to telecommunications equipment and supplies in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8517; all buyers, not only public ones), up 9.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 28 companies have won 58 public supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies in Croatia, in 44 award notices from 19 public buyers.","96.6% of these awards went to companies registered in Croatia; the most frequent foreign origin is Italy.","The five companies that win most often hold 50% of all awards.","61.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":58,"awardNotices":44,"winningCompanies":28,"publicBuyers":19,"awardsWithValue":58,"awardedValueEur":61441469,"localAwards":56,"foreignAwards":2,"top5Share":0.5,"singleBidAwards":35,"awardsWithKnownBids":57,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":11,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":11,"awardedValueEur":20503047},{"year":2025,"awards":19,"awardNotices":16,"awardsWithValue":19,"awardedValueEur":17825585},{"year":2026,"awards":28,"awardNotices":18,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":23112837}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8517","label":"Telephone sets, incl. telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":625944231},{"year":2024,"valueEur":703143787},{"year":2025,"valueEur":683585851}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Croatia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €15 billion in 2025, 15.9% 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":14995000000,"percentOfGdp":15.9,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":32.3,"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, \"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Croatia\", https://cresques.com/markets/hr/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}