Who buys seats in the public sector.
2,216 public bodies issued 7,549 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 70bn 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 notices2,099Public buyers84Imports 2024USD 27bn
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices1,288Public buyers58Imports 2024USD 3.4bn
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices577Public buyers224Imports 2024USD 2.2bn
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices444Public buyers41Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices430Public buyers289Imports 2024USD 9.0bn
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices342Public buyers147Imports 2024USD 2.8bn
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices340Public buyers280Imports 2024USD 4.2bn
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices274Public buyers126Imports 2024USD 2.2bn
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices210Public buyers120Imports 2024USD 640m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices173Public buyers38Imports 2024USD 132m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices168Public buyers116Imports 2024USD 2.1bn
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices148Public buyers72Imports 2024USD 189m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices136Public buyers96Imports 2024USD 639m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices125Public buyers93Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices116Public buyers35Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices109Public buyers52Imports 2024USD 234m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices99Public buyers33Imports 2024USD 56m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices79Public buyers25Imports 2024USD 72m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices55Public buyers47Imports 2024USD 4.1bn
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices52Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 776m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices45Public buyers34Imports 2024USD 833m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices42Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 202m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices41Public buyers35Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 907m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices24Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 547m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices21Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 352m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 289m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 220m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 905m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 33m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 65m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 69m
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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