{"title":"Sports goods and equipment market in Latvia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/lv/374-sports-goods-and-equipment","scope":"Latvia","category":{"cpvGroup":"374","label":"Sports goods and equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Latvia awarded 42 supply contracts for sports goods and equipment through award notices on TED; the 36 of them that state a value (85.7%) add up to €476,878. Latvia imported €40.1 million of goods in the customs headings matched to sports goods and equipment in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9506; all buyers, not only public ones), up 19.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 34 companies have won 104 public supply contracts for sports goods and equipment in Latvia, in 50 award notices from 12 public buyers.","97.1% of these awards went to companies registered in Latvia; the most frequent foreign origin is Lithuania.","The five companies that win most often hold 46.2% of all awards.","25% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":104,"awardNotices":50,"winningCompanies":34,"publicBuyers":12,"awardsWithValue":88,"awardedValueEur":2122638,"localAwards":101,"foreignAwards":3,"top5Share":0.46153846153846156,"singleBidAwards":26,"awardsWithKnownBids":104,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":5,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":38565},{"year":2024,"awards":10,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":110126},{"year":2025,"awards":42,"awardNotices":19,"awardsWithValue":36,"awardedValueEur":476878},{"year":2026,"awards":47,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":40,"awardedValueEur":1497069}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9506","label":"Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports, incl. table-tennis, or outdoor games, not specified or included in this chapter or elsewhere"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":33489236},{"year":2024,"valueEur":31836361},{"year":2025,"valueEur":40077714}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Latvia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €6.65 billion in 2025, 15.2% 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":6646000000,"percentOfGdp":15.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":33.6,"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, \"Sports goods and equipment market in Latvia\", https://cresques.com/markets/lv/374-sports-goods-and-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}