{"title":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Romania","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/ro/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies","scope":"Romania","category":{"cpvGroup":"325","label":"Telecommunications equipment and supplies"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Romania awarded 199 supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies through award notices on TED; the 142 of them that state a value (71.4%) add up to €124 million. Romania imported €2.41 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to telecommunications equipment and supplies in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8517; all buyers, not only public ones), down 0.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 155 companies have won 467 public supply contracts for telecommunications equipment and supplies in Romania, in 151 award notices from 90 public buyers.","98.1% of these awards went to companies registered in Romania; the most frequent foreign origin is Türkiye.","The five companies that win most often hold 24% of all awards.","44% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":467,"awardNotices":151,"winningCompanies":155,"publicBuyers":90,"awardsWithValue":365,"awardedValueEur":402574001,"localAwards":458,"foreignAwards":9,"top5Share":0.2398286937901499,"singleBidAwards":202,"awardsWithKnownBids":459,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":8,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":918840},{"year":2024,"awards":102,"awardNotices":45,"awardsWithValue":93,"awardedValueEur":149676828},{"year":2025,"awards":199,"awardNotices":63,"awardsWithValue":142,"awardedValueEur":124116928},{"year":2026,"awards":158,"awardNotices":39,"awardsWithValue":122,"awardedValueEur":127861404}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8517","label":"Telephone sets, incl. telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2429580045},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2383663408},{"year":2025,"valueEur":2410735837}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Romania — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €47.7 billion in 2025, 12.5% 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":47656000000,"percentOfGdp":12.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.7,"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, \"Telecommunications equipment and supplies market in Romania\", https://cresques.com/markets/ro/325-telecommunications-equipment-and-supplies, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}