{"title":"Measuring instruments market in Italy","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/it/383-measuring-instruments","scope":"Italy","category":{"cpvGroup":"383","label":"Measuring instruments"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Italy awarded 39 supply contracts for measuring instruments through award notices on TED; the 31 of them that state a value (79.5%) add up to €10.3 million. Italy imported €486 million of goods in the customs headings matched to measuring instruments in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9030, 9017 and 9016; all buyers, not only public ones), down 5.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 62 companies have won 86 public supply contracts for measuring instruments in Italy, in 47 award notices from 32 public buyers.","87.2% of these awards went to companies registered in Italy; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 20.9% of all awards.","64.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":86,"awardNotices":47,"winningCompanies":62,"publicBuyers":32,"awardsWithValue":66,"awardedValueEur":21918645,"localAwards":75,"foreignAwards":11,"top5Share":0.20930232558139536,"singleBidAwards":48,"awardsWithKnownBids":74,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":29,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":17,"awardedValueEur":6945655},{"year":2025,"awards":39,"awardNotices":23,"awardsWithValue":31,"awardedValueEur":10308412},{"year":2026,"awards":18,"awardNotices":14,"awardsWithValue":18,"awardedValueEur":4664578}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9030","label":"Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities (excl. meters of heading 9028)"},{"hs4":"9017","label":"Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments, e.g. drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators"},{"hs4":"9016","label":"Balances of a sensitivity of 50 mg or better, with or without weights"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":516030378},{"year":2024,"valueEur":507153708},{"year":2025,"valueEur":486384799}]},"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, \"Measuring instruments market in Italy\", https://cresques.com/markets/it/383-measuring-instruments, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}