Who buys orthopaedic appliances, implants and hearing aids in the public sector.
1,749 public bodies issued 9,007 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 59bn 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 notices3,030Public buyers463Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1,047Public buyers212Imports 2024USD 211m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices700Public buyers155Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices522Public buyers43Imports 2024USD 90m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices427Public buyers62Imports 2024USD 431m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices343Public buyers81Imports 2024USD 125m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices320Public buyers82Imports 2024USD 423m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices231Public buyers30Imports 2024USD 129m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices203Public buyers27Imports 2024USD 53m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices199Public buyers30Imports 2024USD 125m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices195Public buyers45Imports 2024USD 3.6bn
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices189Public buyers108Imports 2024USD 5.6bn
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices180Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 236m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices178Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 1.8bn
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices177Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 16bn
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices163Public buyers31Imports 2024USD 499m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices132Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 51m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices132Public buyers39Imports 2024USD 139m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices116Public buyers69Imports 2024USD 2.3bn
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices91Public buyers54Imports 2024USD 3.9bn
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices82Public buyers37Imports 2024USD 3.5bn
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices59Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 189m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices50Public buyers21Imports 2024USD 828m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices50Public buyers28Imports 2024USD 255m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices46Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 9.1bn
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices41Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 552m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices26Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 349m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices22Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 59m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 12m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 2.1bn
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 51m
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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