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Which EU country has the least competition in public procurement?
Of the countries with at least a thousand lots in the EU Official Journal between January and July 2026, Poland 57.5%, Greece 55.9%, Slovenia 46.9%, Bulgaria 46.7%, Czechia 44.6% leave the most lots with a single bidder, and Switzerland 12.2%, Finland 17.2%, France 18.8%, Norway 19.5%, Ireland 20.6% the fewest. The European figure is 35.9%. Read each share next to its base: Poland 75,144 lots, Greece 5,177 lots, Slovenia 10,784 lots. Counted on eForms BT-759, lot by lot, never estimated.
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