{"title":"Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products market in Norway","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/no/330-medical-equipments-pharmaceuticals-and-personal-ca","scope":"Norway","category":{"cpvGroup":"330","label":"Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Norway awarded 91 supply contracts for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products through award notices on TED; the 44 of them that state a value (48.4%) add up to €25.7 million, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 141 companies have won 288 public supply contracts for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products in Norway, in 188 award notices from 51 public buyers.","87.5% of these awards went to companies registered in Norway; the most frequent foreign origin is Denmark.","The five companies that win most often hold 17.4% of all awards.","26.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":288,"awardNotices":188,"winningCompanies":141,"publicBuyers":51,"awardsWithValue":114,"awardedValueEur":124573867,"localAwards":252,"foreignAwards":36,"top5Share":0.1736111111111111,"singleBidAwards":72,"awardsWithKnownBids":272,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":108,"awardNotices":58,"awardsWithValue":23,"awardedValueEur":32445174},{"year":2025,"awards":91,"awardNotices":64,"awardsWithValue":44,"awardedValueEur":25662251},{"year":2026,"awards":88,"awardNotices":65,"awardsWithValue":47,"awardedValueEur":66466441}]},"imports":null,"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Norway — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €69.3 billion in 2025, 14.7% 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 health in Norway came to €16 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":69305000000,"percentOfGdp":14.7,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":29.8,"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, \"Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products market in Norway\", https://cresques.com/markets/no/330-medical-equipments-pharmaceuticals-and-personal-ca, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}