{"title":"Instruments for checking physical characteristics market in Norway","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/no/384-instruments-for-checking-physical-characteristics","scope":"Norway","category":{"cpvGroup":"384","label":"Instruments for checking physical characteristics"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Norway awarded 65 supply contracts for instruments for checking physical characteristics through award notices on TED; the 27 of them that state a value (41.5%) add up to €13.3 million, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 86 companies have won 190 public supply contracts for instruments for checking physical characteristics in Norway, in 119 award notices from 36 public buyers.","80% of these awards went to companies registered in Norway; the most frequent foreign origin is Sweden.","The five companies that win most often hold 33.2% of all awards.","18.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":190,"awardNotices":119,"winningCompanies":86,"publicBuyers":36,"awardsWithValue":91,"awardedValueEur":47986175,"localAwards":152,"foreignAwards":38,"top5Share":0.33157894736842103,"singleBidAwards":33,"awardsWithKnownBids":177,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":65,"awardNotices":29,"awardsWithValue":18,"awardedValueEur":11288497},{"year":2025,"awards":65,"awardNotices":45,"awardsWithValue":27,"awardedValueEur":13314368},{"year":2026,"awards":60,"awardNotices":45,"awardsWithValue":46,"awardedValueEur":23383311}]},"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."],"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, \"Instruments for checking physical characteristics market in Norway\", https://cresques.com/markets/no/384-instruments-for-checking-physical-characteristics, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}