The Buyer Book · customs heading 8471

Who buys computers and data processing machines in the public sector.

3,233 public bodies issued 17,057 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 313bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

3,233public buyers, named in the book
17,057goods notices in the family
33countries with at least one notice
USD 313bnimported by those countries in 2024
Country by country

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.

  1. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6,529
    Public buyers124
    Imports 2024USD 141bn
  2. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,888
    Public buyers530
    Imports 2024USD 6.3bn
  3. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,630
    Public buyers68
    Imports 2024USD 11bn
  4. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,346
    Public buyers65
    Imports 2024USD 8.1bn
  5. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices931
    Public buyers206
    Imports 2024USD 9.6bn
  6. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices617
    Public buyers237
    Imports 2024USD 5.6bn
  7. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices605
    Public buyers360
    Imports 2024USD 29bn
  8. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices399
    Public buyers177
    Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
  9. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices377
    Public buyers134
    Imports 2024USD 484m
  10. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices328
    Public buyers63
    Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
  11. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices313
    Public buyers185
    Imports 2024USD 28bn
  12. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices306
    Public buyers181
    Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
  13. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices292
    Public buyers156
    Imports 2024USD 16bn
  14. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices232
    Public buyers42
    Imports 2024USD 358m
  15. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices191
    Public buyers164
    Imports 2024USD 12bn
  16. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices166
    Public buyers48
    Imports 2024USD 524m
  17. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices142
    Public buyers52
    Imports 2024USD 345m
  18. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices131
    Public buyers84
    Imports 2024USD 6.3bn
  19. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices100
    Public buyers48
    Imports 2024USD 2.7bn
  20. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices87
    Public buyers26
    Imports 2024USD 348m
  21. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices60
    Public buyers48
    Imports 2024USD 4.3bn
  22. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices57
    Public buyers17
    Imports 2024USD 310m
  23. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices52
    Public buyers46
    Imports 2024USD 5.8bn
  24. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices48
    Public buyers29
    Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
  25. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices47
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
  26. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices43
    Public buyers24
    Imports 2024USD 5.3bn
  27. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices36
    Public buyers22
    Imports 2024USD 2.7bn
  28. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices33
    Public buyers29
    Imports 2024USD 3.8bn
  29. LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices26
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 363m
  30. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices20
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 3.8bn
  31. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 73m
  32. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 2.8bn
  33. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 119m
Withheld here

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.

How it is counted

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.

What it cannot tell you

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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