Who buys buses and coaches in the public sector.
1,455 public bodies issued 12,574 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 13bn 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 notices8,313Public buyers42Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices931Public buyers30Imports 2024USD 794m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices548Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 410m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices286Public buyers137Imports 2024USD 856m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices261Public buyers166Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices246Public buyers54Imports 2024USD 148m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices223Public buyers138Imports 2024USD 375m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices178Public buyers64Imports 2024USD 37m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices153Public buyers62Imports 2024USD 963m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices152Public buyers133Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices145Public buyers55Imports 2024USD 213m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices139Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 54m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices117Public buyers71Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices102Public buyers38Imports 2024USD 108m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices93Public buyers50Imports 2024USD 149m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices88Public buyers57Imports 2024USD 371m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices82Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 89m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices76Public buyers40Imports 2024USD 37m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices67Public buyers44Imports 2024USD 56m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices67Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 78m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices48Public buyers31Imports 2024USD 257m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices39Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 67m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices30Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 554m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices29Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 215m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices28Public buyers25Imports 2024USD 463m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices24Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 280m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 294m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices21Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 181m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 163m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 138m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 8m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 14m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 105m
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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