Who buys medical, surgical and dental instruments in the public sector.
2,775 public bodies issued 34,212 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 118bn 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 notices14,637Public buyers55Imports 2024USD 41bn
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5,925Public buyers592Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2,701Public buyers276Imports 2024USD 590m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1,383Public buyers243Imports 2024USD 3.2bn
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1,370Public buyers106Imports 2024USD 1.0bn
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1,045Public buyers123Imports 2024USD 207m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1,002Public buyers65Imports 2024USD 190m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices634Public buyers50Imports 2024USD 272m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices592Public buyers200Imports 2024USD 4.5bn
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices567Public buyers109Imports 2024USD 767m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices494Public buyers73Imports 2024USD 4.9bn
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices429Public buyers210Imports 2024USD 13bn
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices331Public buyers50Imports 2024USD 422m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices287Public buyers39Imports 2024USD 395m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices286Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 102m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices285Public buyers48Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices270Public buyers59Imports 2024USD 594m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices259Public buyers34Imports 2024USD 590m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices253Public buyers102Imports 2024USD 6.3bn
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices247Public buyers33Imports 2024USD 108m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices209Public buyers70Imports 2024USD 558m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices204Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 4.2bn
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices173Public buyers64Imports 2024USD 5.6bn
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices145Public buyers27Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices109Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 2.8bn
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices83Public buyers21Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices63Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 98m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices58Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 16bn
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices56Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 676m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices51Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 2.1bn
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices38Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 39m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 3.0bn
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 84m
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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