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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 4 different companies have won the last 5 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 5 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 buyer intends to convert existing on-premise Citrix licences (perpetual purchase licences) into time-limited subscriptions of the type 'Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi Cloud' or alternatively 'Citrix Platform' via a Transition and Trade-Up (TTU). The licences currently used are spread across six different Citrix Org IDs; these are to be consolidated at the start of the contract and managed centrally thereafter. The number of licences will be increased to 4,300. Service commencement is 1 January 2027 and the contract runs for 60 months from that date. Further details are set out in the tender documents, in particular the performance specification and the draft contract, including the 'calculation aid' attachment.
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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 590 awards for Software & IT systems in Germany.
- Median award
- €413,549
- Middle half of past awards
- €243,207 to €922,867
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 profileMax Planck Information and Technology (MaxIT)
- notices in the register
- 16
- awards
- 5
Who wins its contracts
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 40%
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoftwareONE Deutschland GmbH | 2 | Oct 2026 | |
| Bechtle AG | 1 | Jun 2026 | |
| STATCON GmbH | 1 | May 2026 | |
| SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH | 1 | Jul 2026 |
Based on 5 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
3 open tenders right now
- IT services: consulting, software development, internet and support - UC_DL_2026 10 days left
- Software package and information systems - CDE 2026 No deadline published
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
- 3,160
- median open notice
- €545,827
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersGermany · Software & IT systems
- different companies won awards here
- 989
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 11%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 816
Based on 1,832 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)
- 3.2
- of those lots received a single tender
- 32%
- 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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