Where to bid · CPV 18 · January to July 2026
Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories
28.8% of the 1,640 lots awarded under this division across 14 European countries drew a single bid. The spread is what matters to a company choosing a market: Croatia at 51.7%, Greece at 0.0%.
Data: TED, the EU Official Journal, harvested
The countries, least contested first
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Name the countries you are weighing up. You get back where public tenders are published in each one, how much of that we read every day, and what an EU company needs before it may bid there. An email, not a call.
Frequently asked questions
01Which European country has the least competition for clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories?
Croatia, where 51.7% of the 56 lots awarded under CPV 18 drew exactly one tender, January to July 2026. At the other end, Greece at 0.0% of 53 lots. Across the 14 countries measured in this division the share is 28.8%, against 35.9% for all EU procurement above the thresholds. Counted on eForms BT-759, the submission count every contract award notice must carry, with the lot as the unit.
02Where are clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories tenders published in Europe?
Above the EU thresholds, in the Official Journal, which is where these figures are counted. Below them, in each country's own portals, and there is no single place. This site's registry maps 8 sources in Croatia, 13 sources in Czechia, 10 sources in Bulgaria, 5 sources in Poland, 8 sources in Sweden. Each country's page lists its national channels and counts the rest by category.
What this does and does not say
A high share means the incumbent supply in that market is thin, which is worth knowing and is not the same as the market being easy to enter. It says nothing about whether a foreign company may bid, what registration it needs, or whether it can deliver locally. That first question has its own page per country, at how to bid abroad. What it removes is the guessing about competition. The count is eForms BT-759 on the contract award notices in the EU Official Journal, January to July 2026, with the lot as the unit and not the notice. A country appears above 30 lots in this division, and a notice counts towards the division only when all of its CPV codes sit in it. The source counts come from this site's platform registry; countries without a page carry their competition row and say so. TED holds procurement above the EU thresholds, so a national market's smaller contracts are not here, and those are usually more contested. Harvested 2026-09-08.
How to cite
TRINTA, "Clothing: where to bid", TED, the EU Official Journal, harvested 8 September 2026, CC BY 4.0, https://trinta.ai/where-to-bid/18-clothing-footwear-luggage-articles (accessed [date]).