Spending for the year
What the Uruguayan state bought in 2025
In 2025 public procurement totalled $ 179.3 billion, down 16.8% on 2024 in current pesos. Inflation accounts for $ 10 billion of that: net of it, spending fell 21.4% in real terms. A single contract is 25% of the real change: LICENCIA DE SOFTWARE (Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas → ARNALDO C CASTRO S A, $ 11.5 billion). Across comparable article codes (26% of the year), the change splits into $ -2.4 billion from unit prices and $ 10.9 billion from quantities — quantity dominates.
Every amount is converted at its own month's exchange rate and deflated by the BCU Unidad Indexada. The series measures purchasing published as open data, not the national budget.
From one year to the next
Each year's change, split into parts that add up exactly. The previous year is first re-priced to this year's price level; what remains is real change, and that is split between bodies entering or leaving the record and those present in both years.
- Spend 2024$ 215,33 mil M
- InflationLast year's spend at this year's pricesplus$ 10,01 mil M
- Enter the record (4)Bodies reporting this year but not lastplus$ 41,6 M
- Leave the record (7)Bodies that stopped reportingminus$ 348 M
- Real change among those in both (271)The part that really is more or less buyingminus$ 45,77 mil M
- Spend 2025$ 179,26 mil M
Bodies that moved the number
Each body against its own previous year, already re-priced.
Categories that moved the number
By SICE catalogue article code, with the previous year re-priced.
The largest contracts of 2025
When a single contract is a large fraction of the year's change, the year did not rise — that contract did.
- LICENCIA DE SOFTWAREAdministración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas · ARNALDO C CASTRO S A$ 11,52 mil M 25% of the real change
- Fletes de terceros.Administración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland · ALCOHOLES DEL URUGUAY S A$ 4,96 mil M 10,8% of the real change
- ARRENDAMIENTO DE SALA DE JUEGODirección General de Casinos · CIA RIOPLATENSE DE HOTELES S.A.$ 3,83 mil M 8,3% of the real change
- CRUDO ESCRAVOSAdministración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland · VITOL ENERGÍAS AMÉRICAS S.A.$ 3,69 mil M 8% of the real change
- CRUDO WTI MIDLANDAdministración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland · CHEVRON PRODUCTS COMPANY$ 3,17 mil M 6,9% of the real change
- CRUDO OKWUIBOME BLENDAdministración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland · VITOL ENERGÍAS AMÉRICAS S.A.$ 3,17 mil M 6,9% of the real change
- CRUDO WTI MIDLANDAdministración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland · BP OIL INTERNATIONAL LTD.$ 3,1 mil M 6,7% of the real change
- CRUDO WTI MIDLANDAdministración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland · VITOL ENERGÍAS AMÉRICAS S.A.$ 2,85 mil M 6,2% of the real change
What we excluded, and why
- SERVICIOS CONEXOS RELACIONADOS A MATERIALES Y SERVICIOS ESPECIFICOS DE UTEAdministración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas · Impossible amount$ 71,04 mil M