1 STATISTICAL REPORT 2 021-2022  
ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT  
ACCORDING TO THE  
AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT 
 
Communication by the European Union  
 
This is the European Union’s (EU) statistical report for 2021 -2022 for submission to the 
Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) Committee. For the purpose of this report, and 
with the aim of increasing transparency by making comprehensive use of electronic formats, the EU submits the report under Article XVI, paragraph 5 of the Revised GPA.  
This report provides context and complementary information on the published datasets on European public procurement extracted from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the online version 
of the 'Supplement to the Official Journal' of the EU .  
The EU considers that statistical reports are a crucial element of GPA notification policy and of 
monitoring the Agreement. Therefore, the EU opted to publish , in addition to the required 
information about the datasets and how these data can be used to calculate government 
procurement statistics in line with Article XVI, paragraph 6, its own estimates of the main 
procurement indicators.  
Both the TED datasets and the EU’s estimates refer to all administrative levels covered by the GPA. 2 1. Datasets and ke y figures  
The datasets on contract award notices registered on the Tenders Electronic Daily platform are 
available under the following links:  
- TED – contract award notices 20 21: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/store/data/ted -
contract -award -notices -2021.zip  
- TED – contract award notices 20 22: https://data.europa.eu/api/hub/store/data/ted -
contract -award -notices -2022.zip  
These datasets contain variables that enable the identification of contract award notices covered by the GPA for 2021- 2022.  
In each .csv file, one compound variable (GPA_ category ) groups all the information needed to 
identify the contracts covered by the GPA. This variable takes six  values:  
- 1 – contract award notices covered by the GPA. This refers to contracts above threshold 
awarded by contracting authorities/entities, for  goods, services and works covered by 
the EU’s GPA schedule. This category also includes contracts fulfilling these criteria but 
lacking a contract value or stating in TED an unrealistically low contract valu e, below 
EUR 4500. 
- 2 – contract award notices issued by entities not covered by the EU’s GPA schedule. 
- 3 – contract award notices issued by entities that are covered by the EU’s GPA schedule, 
but that do not cover the goods, services,  or works concerned . 
- 4 – contracts not covered by the GPA because their value is below the threshold. 
- 5 – contracts not covered by the GPA because the buyer is not a contracting 
authority/entity . 
- 6 – contracts not  covered by the GPA because contract was n on awarded (All lots of 
contract award notices are unsuccessful or discontinued). 
Information on the above variable and other variables linked to GPA coverage (whether the entity is covered by the EU schedule, whether the contract  is covered, the main Common 
Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) code) along with methodological notes is available in a codebook at:  
TED_ data_ information .pdf (europa.eu)  
A more detailed methodological note can be downloaded at:  
TED_advanced_notes _on_methodology .pdf (europa.eu)  
Based on the dataset referenced above and the methodology described in Section 2, the 
following table summarises the key figures for 20 21-2022, without prejudice to the notes on 
the EU coverage schedule.  
EU procurement: Key figures in billion euro  2021  2022  
Value of contracts covered by GPA*  412.6 473.3 
Value of contracts above thresholds*  567.6 641.7  
* EU Member States and EU institutions1 
 
1 The European Council, European Commission and the European External Action Service  are the only EU 
institutions that are covered by the GPA.  3 Contracts covered by the GPA  
This report presents the value of contracts procured in the EU  in 2021-202 2. Changes over 
time were influenced by, amongst others, persistent high inflation, economic growth including 
infrastructure development, crisis response, and technological advancement. T he Commission 
and the EU Member States are constantly working to increase the quality of the data with a 
view to get a more accurate  picture of contracts  covered  by the GPA .  
2021 
In 20 21, the total value contracted by the 2 7 Member States of the EU and covered by the GPA 
was EUR 402.4 billion. In addition, the EU ins titutions contracted EUR 10.2 billion covered by 
the GPA. Taken together, the above- threshold contract procurement value covered in 2021  
was EUR 412.6 billion. Of the total value of procurement covered, supplies  accounted for EUR 
151.3 billion, works for EUR 125.0 billion, and services for EUR 136. 3 billion.  
The highest share in total value of EU contracts covered by the GPA in 20 21 was procured by 
Annex 2 entities, which are bodies governed by public law, local authorities , and regional 
authorities: EUR 244. 6 billion. Central government entities (EU entities and central government 
authorities of E U Member States) contracted EUR 75. 9 billion covered by the GPA, and entities 
operating utilities in the covered sectors contracted EUR 92. 2 billion. In terms of procurement 
method, 57.94% of the contracts were procured using an open tendering method  26.07% of 
the contracts were procured through a selective tendering method , and 15.70% of the 
contracts were procured using a limited tendering  method . A small share of 0.29% was not 
defined.  
2022 
In 20 22, the total value contracted by the 2 7 Member States of the EU and covered by the GPA 
was EUR 4 62.3 billion. In addition, the EU institutions  contracted EUR 11 billion covered by the 
GPA. Taken together , the above- threshold contract procurement value covered in 20 22 was 
EUR 473.3 billion. Of the total value of procurement covered, supplies  accounted for EUR 176.5 
billion, works for EUR 1 46.7 billion, and services for EUR 1 50.2 billion.  
Also in 20 22, the highest share in value of EU contracts covered by GPA was procured by Annex 
2 entities: EUR 292.6 billion. Central government entities contracted EUR 96.6 billion covered 
by the GPA, and entities operating utilities in the covered sectors contracted EUR 84.1 billion. 
In terms of procurement method, 62.17% of the contracts were procured using an open 
tendering method 23. 58% of the contracts were procured through a selective tendering 
method, and 13.88%% of the contracts were procured using a limited tendering method. A 
small share of 0.36% was not defined.  
Contracts above the set thresholds 
The total value of above -threshold procurement in the EU is greater than the value of contracts 
covered by the GPA.  
One reason for this difference is that not all procuring entities are covered by the GPA. In 
particular, the EU does not cover utilities pr oviding  natural  gas, heat, and postal services, nor 
does it cover activities such as coal, solid fuels, oil and gas exploration and extraction. Annex 
1 and 2 entities in the fields of water, energy, transport,  and postal services are not covered 
by the GPA  either, unless they are covered in Annex 3. Lastly, not all EU institutions are covered 
by the GPA.  
Another reason for the higher total value of above -threshold procurement in the EU is that not 
all types of contracts are covered by the GPA. In particular, it does not cover the following types of contracts:  
- service contracts listed in Annex XIV to the 2014 EU Public Procurement Directive (2014/24/EU) (such as hotel and accommodation services); 
- procurement in the defence and security industries (defence m aterial and training, ICT, 
R&D, investigation,  and security services) by Annex 1 authorities in the field of defence 
and security.  4 In 20 21, the total value of above -threshold procurement in the EU was EUR 567.55 billion. Of 
this, the value of above -thresholds procurements contracted by entities not covered by the 
GPA wa s EUR 10 billion. The value of other above- thresholds contracts not covered by the GPA 
was EUR 1 44.95 billion.  
In 20 22, the total value of above -threshold procurement in the EU was EUR 641.71 billion. Of 
this, the value of above -thresholds procurements contracted by entities not covered by the 
GPA was EUR 13.46 billion. The value of other above -thresholds contracts not cover ed by the 
GPA was EUR 1 54.95 billion.  
 
2. Methodological issues for the estimated values 
The EU ’s objective is to continuously improve the accurateness and reliability of the data. 
Although TED provides reliable data in terms of the number of contracts recorded, some 
challenges remain regarding th e reporting of contract values. While  it is the responsibility of 
each individual contracting authority to correctly fill in the value of all contracts in TED, the 
European Commission and the Member States are working on several action points to remedy 
the situation, and the quality of the data  has and  continues to be steadily improved.  
2021- 2022 
The data  for 20 21 and 202 2 bring in a few methodological changes for estimating  procurement 
values. The following improvements were made in the TED 2021 and 2022 contract award 
notice datasets : 
- The methodology includes automating the process of enriching the 2021- 2022 entities 
data with the entities classification already conducted for previous years. The Annexes 
to the GPA were reviewed to ensure any changes or modifications to the coverage are correctly applied to the entities’ classification.  
- After a more detailed analysis, a duplication of contract award notice that  generates an 
increase of data points in specific cases has been detected. To cope with this issue, an 
automatic process of detection of potential duplicates is performed.  This new approach 
has been implemented specifically to deal with the data from 2021 and 2022, as this duplication issue was not present in previous years.  
- With respect to the type of procurement procedures,  a negotiated procedure without a 
call for competition is changed from “Selective” to “Limited”  in line with GPA Article 
XIII and Article 32 of the EU Procurement Directive (Directive 2014/24/EU) which 
details the use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication.  Furthermore, a 
restricted procedure – in which a ny operator may submit a request to participate and 
only those selected based on a pre- established qualification criteria may submit a 
tender  – is changed from “Open” to “Selective” in line with Article IX of the GPA  and 
Article 28 of the EU Public Procurement Directive (Directive 2014/24/EU) which details  
the restricted procedure.  
 
3. Description of annexes to the report  
For additional transparency, the EU has generated data tables summarising its calculations 
based on the methodology including the improvements above. The following data  are attached 
to this report including:  
- One table for each of the 27 EU Member States and each reporting year ( 2021-2022) 
summarising the total values of above -threshold procurement, broken down by 
contract type (goods, works, services), GPA coverage, proc urement procedure, and 
GPA Annex.  
- An equivalent set of tables summarising the values for the 2 7 EU Member States  in 
aggregate for 2021- 2022. 5 - A comparable set of tables summarising the values of above -threshold procurement 
carried out by the EU institutions  for 20 21-2022.