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Based on 11 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryThe Supplementary Pension Fund of the City of Cologne (ZVK) intends to award a framework contract for the audit of its annual financial statements and of the actuarial calculation bases provided by the actuary. The contract covers financial years 2025 to 2029, with the annual audits performed after the annual financial statements are prepared in the following year. In line with municipal guidelines, the ZVK is conducting auditor rotation, so the audit firm engaged up to the 2024 financial statements is excluded from this procurement. 50 working and travel days are budgeted per annual audit, amounting to 250 days over the full framework contract.
Description
Terms of the procedure
- How tenders are scored
- Fachliche Qualifikation: 35 percent; Preis: 65 percent
- Small firms
- The buyer does not mark this procedure as suitable for small and medium-sized firms.
As the official notice states them.
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- Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
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Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 845 awards for Business services in Germany.
- Median award
- €376,080
- Middle half of past awards
- €102,800 to €1.1M
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileAmt für Recht, Vergabe und Versicherungen
- notices in the register
- 388
- awards
- 162
- awarded in total
- €32.5M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 126
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 6%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 4%
Based on 141 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 5.3
- of those lots received a single tender
- 12%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 3%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belius GmbH | 1 | €249,988 | Oct 2025 |
| Aclewe GmbH Werbeagentur | 1 | Feb 2026 | |
| CityProjekt Veranstaltungs GmbH | 1 | Jan 2026 | |
| Drees & Sommer SE | 1 | Jul 2025 | |
| Heinzel GmbH | 1 | Jan 2026 |
Based on 11 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
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Market context
TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.
- open now in Business services
- 4,281
- median open notice
- €216,000
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersGermany · Business services
- different companies won awards here
- 1,828
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 3%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 1,115
Based on 2,704 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 8.6
- of those lots received a single tender
- 8%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 3%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 5%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
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