Public procurement statistics: Research & development
6,138 Notices, last 12 complete months
Twelve months
September 2026 was the busiest month: 1,127 notices
The last twelve months across every country, as three small charts, each on its own scale
2,656 awards in these twelve months €1.5B awarded 86% of the awards state a value published in 34 countries
Notices
Awards
Awarded value
October 2026 is still being counted.
Hatched months before January 2026 are partial coverage: not every source was in the register yet.
Source: Aperlena register, monthly figures counted on October 31, 2026. See the data
By country
Spain: the most notices in the register, 1.2 times the next country
Notices of this sector published in the last 12 complete months, the 15 countries with the most. Coverage starts at a different date in each country.
Table
Source: Aperlena register, monthly figures counted on October 31, 2026. See the data
Month by month
| Month | Notices | Awards | Buyers | Awarded value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 still counting | 1,484 | 266 | 754 | €32.4M |
| September 2026 | 1,127 | 388 | 680 | €85.3M |
| August 2026 | 899 | 305 | 528 | €126.2M |
| July 2026 | 996 | 470 | 516 | €812.4M |
| June 2026 | 645 | 289 | 388 | €29.5M |
| May 2026 | 450 | 230 | 307 | €57.8M |
| April 2026 | 452 | 253 | 304 | €40.9M |
| March 2026 | 593 | 213 | 355 | €228.3M |
| February 2026 | 400 | 115 | 265 | €20.7M |
| January 2026 | 393 | 129 | 247 | €33.5M |
| December 2025 partial | 115 | 110 | 92 | €39.3M |
| November 2025 partial | 32 | 97 | 25 | €34.9M |
| October 2025 partial | 36 | 57 | 24 | €13.2M |
Source: Aperlena register, monthly figures counted on October 31, 2026.
How we count
Method: counts come from official procurement notices aggregated by Aperlena; a notice belongs to the month it was published and an award to the month it was decided. Value sums cover only awards whose official notice states a value - the coverage percentage says how many do. Nothing is estimated.
Amounts in rankings and totals: an award amount is printed as its source publishes it. From EUR 50 million up, an amount is left out of every sum, ranking and list of the largest when it is more than 20 times its own notice's estimate, when the same buyer has already stated the same amount on an earlier award (a contract restated by later notices, or a ceiling shared by several lots, is counted once, on the earliest), or when it is above EUR 500 million and more than 100 times the 99th percentile of three years of awards in the same country and sector. The award still counts as an award, and its own page shows the published amount.
Reuse: the aggregate statistics computed by Aperlena (figures, charts and the downloadable tables) may be reused with attribution under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: "Aperlena (aperlena.com)", with a link. The underlying notices remain subject to the terms of their official sources.
Coverage: a country or a sector is covered from the first month since which its monthly notices hold steady up to today. Walking back from the last complete month, a month counts while it holds at least a third of the median of the three months after it. Earlier months are drawn hatched and labelled partial. No change is printed across them, nor when a month is more than double or less than half the one before: in this register that is a source being loaded, not a market moving.
Figures as of October 31, 2026, 04:40 UTC.