{"title":"Emergency and security equipment market in Italy","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/it/351-emergency-and-security-equipment","scope":"Italy","category":{"cpvGroup":"351","label":"Emergency and security equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Italy awarded 76 supply contracts for emergency and security equipment through award notices on TED; the 73 of them that state a value (96.1%) add up to €46.7 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 111 companies have won 176 public supply contracts for emergency and security equipment in Italy, in 80 award notices from 67 public buyers.","96% of these awards went to companies registered in Italy; the most frequent foreign origin is San Marino.","The five companies that win most often hold 15.9% of all awards.","30.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":176,"awardNotices":80,"winningCompanies":111,"publicBuyers":67,"awardsWithValue":164,"awardedValueEur":121595208,"localAwards":169,"foreignAwards":7,"top5Share":0.1590909090909091,"singleBidAwards":40,"awardsWithKnownBids":132,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":51,"awardNotices":20,"awardsWithValue":46,"awardedValueEur":35481399},{"year":2025,"awards":76,"awardNotices":27,"awardsWithValue":73,"awardedValueEur":46687548},{"year":2026,"awards":49,"awardNotices":33,"awardsWithValue":45,"awardedValueEur":39426262}]},"imports":null,"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.","General government spending on goods, services and investment for defence in Italy came to €11.5 billion in 2024 (Eurostat, COFOG). How much of it reaches suppliers through tenders depends on how the country organises the sector — for example whether statutory health insurance is classified in government.","General government spending on goods, services and investment for public order and safety in Italy came to €10.5 billion in 2024 (Eurostat, COFOG). How much of it reaches suppliers through tenders depends on how the country organises the sector — for example whether statutory health insurance is classified in government."],"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":[{"text":"The European Defence Agency puts EU Member States' defence spending at €418 billion in 2025, 2.2% of GDP.","source":"European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2025-2026","url":"https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-publications/2026-eda_defencedata_webpublic.pdf","referenceYear":2025},{"text":"The European Defence Agency puts defence equipment procurement by EU Member States at €115 billion in 2025, up 26% in real terms.","source":"European Defence Agency, Defence Data 2025-2026","url":"https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-publications/2026-eda_defencedata_webpublic.pdf","referenceYear":2025}],"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, \"Emergency and security equipment market in Italy\", https://cresques.com/markets/it/351-emergency-and-security-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}