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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 11 different companies have won the last 14 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 14 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 summaryA German public procurement notice concerns the supply of one licence for reference management software (Literaturverwaltungssoftware). The tender covers the delivery of a document management system in the form of software used for managing bibliographic references, with a quantity of one item as indicated in the contract description.
Description
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- Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
- The notice is written in German.
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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 597 awards for Software & IT systems in Germany.
- Median award
- €412,092
- Middle half of past awards
- €243,112 to €924,370
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 profileFraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Einkauf B12
- notices in the register
- 715
- awards
- 329
- awarded in total
- €1.3M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 229
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 6%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 0%
Based on 290 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)
- 5.1
- of those lots received a single tender
- 22%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 16%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced UniByte GmbH | 4 | Oct 2026 | |
| Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH | 1 | Nov 2025 | |
| Deloitte Consulting GmbH | 1 | Sep 2025 | |
| DELTA Computer Products GmbH | 1 | Aug 2025 | |
| Ex Libris (Deutschland) GmbH | 1 | Oct 2025 |
Based on 14 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 Software & IT systems
- 3,267
- median open notice
- €503,114
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersGermany · Software & IT systems
- different companies won awards here
- 1,005
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 11%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 817
Based on 1,854 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)
- 3.1
- of those lots received a single tender
- 31%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 5%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 6%
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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