Public tenders in Germany

How public tendering works in Germany

Germany runs the largest public procurement market in the European Union, and publishes more tenders to the EU register than any other member state.

• German contracting authorities publish above-threshold notices to TED, the EU register, which is where our German listings come from.
• Contracts below the EU thresholds are published on federal, state and municipal portals instead. We do not cover those yet, so treat this as the large-contract view of Germany rather than the whole market.
• Notices are usually written in German. Bidding documents and correspondence are normally expected in German too, even where the notice itself has an English summary.

Open now

4,533

Closing this week

338

Typical time to bid

30 days

With a published value

13%

Figures are counted from the 4,533 open Germany tenders we hold right now, and change as notices are published and close. "Typical time to bid" is the median gap between publication and deadline.

Most common right now: Construction work (1,650), Architectural, construction and engineering services (723), Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services (328), Transport equipment (209), Business services: law, marketing, consulting and recruitment (165)

Buyers publishing most often: DB InfraGO AG – Geschäftsbereich Fahrweg (Bukr 16), Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch das Bundesministerium des Innern, vertreten durch das Beschaffungsamt des BMI, Gemeinde Obersulm, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Landeshauptstadt München, Baureferat.