A €107 billion headline that needs unpacking

The single most striking finding in this dataset is the scale: IT-services contracts (CPV Division 72 — covering consulting, software development, and support) recorded under Belgian buyers reached a combined awarded value of approximately €66.3 billion in 2025 and a further €40.7 billion in 2026, for a two-year total exceeding €107 billion. Those figures are based on 96.8 % and 94.9 % value coverage respectively, meaning a small residual of awards did not disclose a value — but the headline is not a rounding artefact.

To put that in perspective: Belgium's entire annual federal budget runs to roughly €60 billion. The IT-procurement numbers are not a reflection of Belgian public-sector IT appetite alone. They are, in large part, a consequence of geography.

The Brussels effect: EU institutions as mega-buyers

Belgium hosts the principal seat of the European Commission, the Council of the EU, and dozens of EU agencies and bodies. Under TED (Tenders Electronic Daily, the Official Journal supplement where EU public contracts are published), these institutions file notices that are geocoded to Belgium. Their framework agreements — multi-supplier, multi-year vehicles that can cascade enormous ceiling values — sit inside the same CPV 72 bucket as a Flemish municipality buying helpdesk licences.

The winner league table reflects this dynamic unmistakably. Not one of the top twelve suppliers by disclosed value is a Belgian-headquartered firm in the traditional sense of domestic IT integrators. The list includes CloudFerro S.A. (Poland-based cloud infrastructure, €1.84 billion across 40 awards), VSHN AG (Swiss DevOps specialist, €1.78 billion, 38 awards), Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A. (€1.73 billion, 38 awards), and OVH SAS (French cloud, €1.33 billion, 9 awards). These are pan-European or global suppliers winning EU-institution frameworks, not local Belgian contracts.

The sole entry that reads as a domestically active firm is CGI BELGIUM NV, which appears tied on disclosed value (€983 million across 2 awards) with EUROPEAN DYNAMICS LUXEMBOURG SA — itself a Luxembourg-registered entity serving EU institutions.

What genuine Belgian IT demand looks like

Stripping away the institutional distortion is not straightforward with this data, but the competitiveness indicators offer a partial window. In 2025, the average bid count per award stood at 8.79, with only 9.4 % of awards attracting a single bid — a relatively competitive picture. By 2026, the single-bid share had more than doubled to 19.7 %, while the average bid count fell to 8.09. Whether that shift reflects a change in the mix of buyers (more domestic, smaller lots) or a tightening supplier market cannot be determined from this data alone.

The number of distinct winners is telling in a different way: 341 in 2025 and 392 in 2026, against a backdrop of 663 and 532 awards respectively. That spread suggests the market is not monolithic; smaller suppliers do win contracts. The top-five winners' share of total disclosed value was 13.1 % in 2025 and 8.7 % in 2026 — moderate concentration by public-procurement standards, though the absolute values involved are exceptional.

What the data cannot tell us

This analysis cannot cleanly separate EU-institution spend from Belgian federal, regional, or local spend, because TED does not tag contracting authorities (the public bodies issuing tenders) by institutional type in a way that is consistently machine-readable across this extract. Readers seeking to isolate purely domestic Belgian IT procurement would need to filter by contracting-authority identifier — a step beyond the scope of this dataset.

Methodology note

All figures are drawn from TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the European Union's official public-procurement gazette, covering 2025 and 2026 as recorded in the extract provided. Value coverage stands at 96.8 % for 2025 and 94.9 % for 2026, meaning a small share of award notices did not disclose a contract value; all value-based statistics reflect only those awards where a value was reported. Bid-count averages are similarly based on the subset of awards that included that information. Winner totals reflect disclosed values only and may understate actual contract volumes.