Who buys vacuum cleaners in the public sector.
395 public bodies issued 813 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 15bn 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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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices150Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 3.2bn
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices82Public buyers39Imports 2024USD 70m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices69Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 450m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices67Public buyers62Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices50Public buyers33Imports 2024USD 719m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices44Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 269m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices40Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 498m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices39Public buyers23Imports 2024USD 510m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices29Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 339m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices27Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 166m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices27Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 753m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices26Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 219m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 2.9bn
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 65m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 246m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 283m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 151m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 693m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 32m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 100m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 38m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 317m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 98m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 74m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 107m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 86m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 15m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 83m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 5m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 20m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 235m
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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