Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products market in Slovakia: size, suppliers and public contracts
Market size and key facts
In 2025, public buyers in Slovakia awarded 63 supply contracts for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products through award notices on TED; the 14 of them that state a value (22.2%) add up to €326,399, a floor rather than the full contract value.
- Since November 2023, 36 companies have won 118 public supply contracts for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products in Slovakia, in 91 award notices from 4 public buyers.
- 83.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Slovakia; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.
- The five companies that win most often hold 52.5% of all awards.
- 44.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid.
In proportion
All public purchasing in Slovakia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €19.3 billion in 2025, 13.9% 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 Slovakia came to €6.4 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.
Source: Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), retrieved 9 November 2026.
Updated · counted daily from contract award notices on TED and Eurostat international trade data · figures as JSON · free to quote with attribution (CC BY 4.0)
How to cite: Cresques, "Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products market in Slovakia", https://cresques.com/markets/sk/330-medical-equipments-pharmaceuticals-and-personal-ca, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 10 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Winning companies
- 36
- since November 2023
- Award notices
- 91
- on TED
- Public buyers
- 4
- hospitals, schools, agencies
- Imports
- —
- no customs heading isolates this category
The market in numbers
Public supply contracts in Slovakia: award notices published on TED from 2023-11 to 2026-11, by publication year.
- Contracts awarded
- 118
- in 91 award notices
- Awarded value
- €574.8K
- from 14% of awards with a published value
- Winning companies
- 36
- with at least one award
- Public buyers
- 4
- hospitals, cities, agencies
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| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 63 |
| 2026 | 39 |
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| 2024 | €248.4K |
| 2025 | €326.4K |
| 2026 | €0 |
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| Universities, schools and research | 86 |
| Hospitals and health services | 31 |
| Cities, regions and central administration | 1 |
- Bratislavský kraj86SK01
- Východné Slovensko28SK04
- Západné Slovensko3SK02
- Stredné Slovensko1SK03
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| Bratislavský kraj | 86 |
| Východné Slovensko | 28 |
| Západné Slovensko | 3 |
| Stredné Slovensko | 1 |
- Medium-sized
- Small
- Micro
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| Medium-sized | 1 · 0.8% |
| Small | 114 · 96.6% |
| Micro | 3 · 2.5% |
- Czechia19
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| Czechia | 19 |
- Under €2M turnover
- €2M–10M
- €10M–50M
- €50M and more
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| Under €2M turnover | 11 · 47.8% |
| €2M–10M | 9 · 39.1% |
| €10M–50M | 2 · 8.7% |
| €50M and more | 1 · 4.3% |
- Bratislava - mestská časť Staré Mesto86
- Košice-mestská časť Juh28
- Považská Bystrica3
- Banská Bystrica1
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| Bratislava - mestská časť Staré Mesto | 86 |
| Košice-mestská časť Juh | 28 |
| Považská Bystrica | 3 |
| Banská Bystrica | 1 |
23 of 25 winning companies registered in Slovakia have annual accounts in the open business registers; bands follow the EU SME turnover thresholds.
Awards to companies registered in Slovakia
83.9%
19 awards went to companies registered elsewhere.
Share of the 5 biggest winners
52.5%
Of all awards; a high share means a concentrated market.
Lots with a single bid
44.9%
Among 118 awards whose notice states the number of tenders.
How we count: one award per procedure, lot and winning company, from live contract award notices; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market. Values are the awarded amounts published in the notice (framework ceilings and estimates are never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Company size is the SME flag of the notice (eForms BT-165). Read the methodology.
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Among the companies that win most often
- STRIM-SK, s.r.o.25 public contracts in total
- VWR International s.r.o.265 public contracts in total
- ECOTEST spol. s r. o.24 public contracts in total
- Hermes LabSystems, s.r.o.144 public contracts in total
- KVANT spol. s r.o.83 public contracts in total
Where this industry meets in Slovakia
- COMPAMEDTrade fair · Düsseldorf, Germany
- MEDICATrade fair · Düsseldorf, Germany
- World Health Expo Dubai (WHX, formerly Arab Health)Trade fair · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- BULMEDICATrade fair · Sofia, Bulgaria
- HospitalarTrade fair · São Paulo, Brazil
- 31st WONCA Europe ConferenceCongress · Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Questions
- Who wins public contracts for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products in Slovakia?
- 36 companies won 91 contract award notices for these categories from 4 public buyers in Slovakia since November 2023. The companies that win most often are STRIM-SK, s.r.o., VWR International s.r.o., ECOTEST spol. s r. o., Hermes LabSystems, s.r.o., KVANT spol. s r.o..
- How big is the medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products market in Slovakia?
- In 2025, public buyers in Slovakia awarded 63 supply contracts for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products through award notices on TED; the 14 of them that state a value (22.2%) add up to €326,399, a floor rather than the full contract value.
- Where do suppliers of medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products meet buyers and distributors in Slovakia?
- At trade fairs and congresses such as COMPAMED, MEDICA, World Health Expo Dubai (WHX, formerly Arab Health), BULMEDICA, Hospitalar, 31st WONCA Europe Conference — each checked on the organiser's official website.
- How do I find a distributor for medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products in Slovakia?
- Create a free Cresques account and open the market map for Slovakia and this category. It shows the companies that win public contracts there, how often, for how many buyers and for how much: the first 5 on the Free plan, every company on a paid plan. Where the data exists, the map also shows wholesalers from the business register, import figures and the industry's trade fairs.
Sources: contract award notices on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu), © European Union, published since November 2023, processed by Cresques (one award per procedure and lot); no import figure: Eurostat's customs headings do not isolate this category.