{"title":"Basic inorganic and organic chemicals market in Italy","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/it/243-basic-inorganic-and-organic-chemicals","scope":"Italy","category":{"cpvGroup":"243","label":"Basic inorganic and organic chemicals"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Italy awarded 52 supply contracts for basic inorganic and organic chemicals through award notices on TED; the 33 of them that state a value (63.5%) add up to €16.5 million. Italy imported €4.55 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to basic inorganic and organic chemicals in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2905, 2901, 2902, 2915, 2909 and 8 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 0.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 52 companies have won 135 public supply contracts for basic inorganic and organic chemicals in Italy, in 83 award notices from 48 public buyers.","99.3% of these awards went to companies registered in Italy; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 35.6% of all awards.","29.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":135,"awardNotices":83,"winningCompanies":52,"publicBuyers":48,"awardsWithValue":103,"awardedValueEur":88048692,"localAwards":134,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.35555555555555557,"singleBidAwards":34,"awardsWithKnownBids":116,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":38,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":29,"awardedValueEur":50161434},{"year":2025,"awards":52,"awardNotices":35,"awardsWithValue":33,"awardedValueEur":16523424},{"year":2026,"awards":45,"awardNotices":26,"awardsWithValue":41,"awardedValueEur":21363834}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2905","label":"Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives"},{"hs4":"2901","label":"Acyclic hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2902","label":"Cyclic hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2915","label":"Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids"},{"hs4":"2909","label":"Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxide, ketone peroxides, whether or not chemically defined, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives"},{"hs4":"2917","label":"Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids"},{"hs4":"2921","label":"Amine-function compounds"},{"hs4":"2815","label":"Sodium hydroxide \"caustic soda\", potassium hydroxide \"caustic potash\""},{"hs4":"2914","label":"Ketones and quinones, whether or not with other oxygen function, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives"},{"hs4":"2809","label":"Diphosphorus pentaoxide"},{"hs4":"2801","label":"Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine"},{"hs4":"2807","label":"Sulphuric acid"},{"hs4":"2806","label":"Hydrogen chloride \"hydrochloric acid\""}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4576743620},{"year":2024,"valueEur":4488846987},{"year":2025,"valueEur":4553955278}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Italy — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €274 billion in 2025, 12.1% 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":274086000000,"percentOfGdp":12.1,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":23.7,"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, \"Basic inorganic and organic chemicals market in Italy\", https://cresques.com/markets/it/243-basic-inorganic-and-organic-chemicals, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}