{"title":"Sports goods and equipment market in Slovakia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/sk/374-sports-goods-and-equipment","scope":"Slovakia","category":{"cpvGroup":"374","label":"Sports goods and equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Slovakia awarded 14 supply contracts for sports goods and equipment through award notices on TED; the 14 of them that state a value (100%) add up to €1.76 million. Slovakia imported €130 million of goods in the customs headings matched to sports goods and equipment in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9506; all buyers, not only public ones), up 30.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 26 companies have won 54 public supply contracts for sports goods and equipment in Slovakia, in 42 award notices from 10 public buyers.","68.5% of these awards went to companies registered in Slovakia; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 50% of all awards.","29.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":54,"awardNotices":42,"winningCompanies":26,"publicBuyers":10,"awardsWithValue":54,"awardedValueEur":5591209,"localAwards":37,"foreignAwards":17,"top5Share":0.5,"singleBidAwards":15,"awardsWithKnownBids":51,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":49075},{"year":2024,"awards":18,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":18,"awardedValueEur":1170947},{"year":2025,"awards":14,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":14,"awardedValueEur":1759088},{"year":2026,"awards":21,"awardNotices":18,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":2612099}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9506","label":"Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports, incl. table-tennis, or outdoor games, not specified or included in this chapter or elsewhere"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":99269927},{"year":2024,"valueEur":98896359},{"year":2025,"valueEur":129752723}]},"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":[],"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, \"Sports goods and equipment market in Slovakia\", https://cresques.com/markets/sk/374-sports-goods-and-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}