Where to bid · CPV 38 · January to July 2026

Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

58.2% of the 5,009 lots awarded under this division across 25 European countries drew a single bid. The spread is what matters to a company choosing a market: Austria at 82.8%, Norway at 23.8%.

58.2%
of lots in this division drew one bid
36.0%
across all EU procurement
5,009
lots counted in this division
25
countries above the bar

The countries, least contested first

#CountrySingle bidLots
1Austria31 sources, 28 with a connector82.8%93
2Sloveniano country page yet81.1%74
3Finland7 sources, 2 with a connector71.9%32
4Netherlands2 sources, 1 with a connector70.6%68
5Denmark11 sources, 5 with a connector70.2%47
6Poland5 sources, 3 with a connector68.6%911
7Czechia13 sources, 6 with a connector63.4%543
8Spain13 sources, 11 with a connector63.2%307
9Germany30 sources, 24 with a connector61.2%500
10Romania6 sources, 1 with a connector60.0%275
11Greece16 sources, 9 with a connector59.5%111
12Estoniano country page yet59.5%74
13Sweden8 sources, 8 with a connector57.8%135
14Portugal10 sources, 8 with a connector57.5%200
15Bulgaria10 sources, 4 with a connector55.3%282
16Croatia8 sources, 5 with a connector54.9%286
17Belgium5 sources, 2 with a connector49.3%140
18Italy11 sources, 7 with a connector49.1%216
19Latviano country page yet44.7%123
20Slovakiano country page yet38.8%67
21Ireland5 sources, 1 with a connector35.9%64
22France27 sources, 16 with a connector34.8%161
23Switzerlandno country page yet33.3%30
24Hungary8 sources, 4 with a connector29.4%228
25Norway5 sources, 1 with a connector23.8%42

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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.

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