Who buys bed, table, toilet and kitchen linen in the public sector.
570 public bodies issued 1,202 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 16bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.
The counts are free. The list is withheld.
Ranked by notices in the family. A US count is federal contract actions, delivery orders included, so it is not comparable with a European notice count: compare buyers within a country, and use the import bill to compare countries.
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices159Public buyers58Imports 2024USD 541m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices124Public buyers42Imports 2024USD 215m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices121Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 5.4bn
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices119Public buyers107Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices110Public buyers33Imports 2024USD 131m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices79Public buyers65Imports 2024USD 606m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices66Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 536m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices54Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 64m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices46Public buyers22Imports 2024USD 56m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices46Public buyers33Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices30Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 52m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices29Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 85m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 296m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 96m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 541m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 353m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 96m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 20m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 31m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 23m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 188m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices13Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 984m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 100m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 807m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 176m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 9m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 250m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 89m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 673m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 105m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 130m
The full Buyer Book names the ten most frequent public buyers in every country above, with one notice title each as the buyer published it, the three largest source countries of the import bill, and the record and window behind every count. It is a document, bought by email. No award value appears in it, and no supplier: companies appear only as public buyers.
Two public records, joined.
The join from a buyer's procurement code to a customs heading runs through crosswalks BuzzBaboon authored, because no official one exists, so it is approximate: a count is a product family, never a claim that a buyer bought one exact line.
A notice counts only when the buyer classified the purchase as goods and its code matches a specific crosswalk key, never a broad division. Identical rows count once; US prime-vendor ledger rows are left out. The import bill is CEPII BACI for 2024, summed over the heading's six-digit lines: what crossed the border, public and private buyers together.
A list of where to look.
Which company won any notice, what any award was worth, or whether a buyer will buy again. The records carry framework ceilings and typing errors, so values are never shown. Award records are those of 33 countries that publish one openly with at least 500 notices a year; a country missing here publishes none this record can read. Nothing on this page is a forecast or a promise.
Sources: TED, USAspending, open.canada.ca, AusTender, Contracts Finder, CEPII BACI. Edition of 3 November 2026.
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