{"title":"Motor vehicles market in Slovakia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/sk/341-motor-vehicles","scope":"Slovakia","category":{"cpvGroup":"341","label":"Motor vehicles"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Slovakia awarded 217 supply contracts for motor vehicles through award notices on TED; the 205 of them that state a value (94.5%) add up to €227 million. Slovakia imported €4.98 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to motor vehicles in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8703, 8704, 8702 and 8705; all buyers, not only public ones), up 14.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 142 companies have won 526 public supply contracts for motor vehicles in Slovakia, in 393 award notices from 137 public buyers.","95.6% of these awards went to companies registered in Slovakia; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 20.2% of all awards.","33.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":526,"awardNotices":393,"winningCompanies":142,"publicBuyers":137,"awardsWithValue":496,"awardedValueEur":372142608,"localAwards":503,"foreignAwards":23,"top5Share":0.20152091254752852,"singleBidAwards":176,"awardsWithKnownBids":526,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":34,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":31,"awardedValueEur":16570042},{"year":2024,"awards":114,"awardNotices":91,"awardsWithValue":105,"awardedValueEur":63531893},{"year":2025,"awards":217,"awardNotices":158,"awardsWithValue":205,"awardedValueEur":226521428},{"year":2026,"awards":161,"awardNotices":122,"awardsWithValue":155,"awardedValueEur":65519245}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8703","label":"Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars (excl. motor vehicles of heading 8702)"},{"hs4":"8704","label":"Motor vehicles for the transport of goods, incl. chassis with engine and cab"},{"hs4":"8702","label":"Motor vehicles for the transport of >= 10 persons, incl. driver"},{"hs4":"8705","label":"Special purpose motor vehicles (other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods), e.g. breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops and mobile radiological units"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4344202233},{"year":2024,"valueEur":4289317017},{"year":2025,"valueEur":4983775325}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["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."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":19309000000,"percentOfGdp":13.9,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":29.4,"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":[{"text":"ACEA counts 38,238 new buses registered in the EU in 2025, up 7.5% on 2024; electrically chargeable buses were 23.8% of them.","source":"ACEA, New commercial vehicle registrations: vans -8.8%, trucks -6.2%, buses +7.5% in 2025","url":"https://www.acea.auto/cv-registrations/new-commercial-vehicle-registrations-vans-8-8-trucks-6-2-buses-7-5-in-2025/","referenceYear":2025},{"text":"EU manufacturers sold 23,139 buses and coaches worth €6.25 billion in 2024 (Eurostat PRODCOM).","source":"Eurostat, Sold production, exports and imports (PRODCOM, DS-059358)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-059358?lang=en&product=29103000&reporter=EU27_2020&indicators=PRODVAL&indicators=PRODQNT&indicators=PVALFLAG&time=2024","referenceYear":2024},{"text":"Under the Clean Vehicles Directive, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and other western Member States must make 65% of the buses they procure in 2026–2030 clean, half of the target through zero-emission buses; the targets are lower in central and eastern Europe (for example Poland 46%, Czechia 60%, Hungary 53%, Croatia 38%).","source":"European Commission (DG MOVE), Clean Vehicles Directive","url":"https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/clean-transport/clean-and-energy-efficient-vehicles/clean-vehicles-directive_en","referenceYear":"2021–2030"}],"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, \"Motor vehicles market in Slovakia\", https://cresques.com/markets/sk/341-motor-vehicles, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}