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Germany - Supporting technical activities - Support services for the project 'Customer Support with focus on Microelectronics and IC Layout'

Original Deutschland - Unterstützende technische Tätigkeiten - Support services for the project „Customer Support with focus on Microelectronics and IC Layout“

Open Germany Mittelfranken Architecture & engineering services

Buyer Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.

31 days left

Key facts

Closes
10:00 (UTC+1)
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 31 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

31 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (Germany, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 31 days, half of them between 28 and 34 days, based on 84,618 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 31 days (median of its last 29 calls for tender).

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

The Department Integrated Circuits and Systems ICS at Fraunhofer IIS in Germany seeks a contractor for professional customer support in microelectronics and IC layout. The work includes serving international customers and reviewing their IC designs, acting as the primary interface between EUROPRACTICE and the EU Chips Design Platform (EuroCDP) and the semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries, managing MPW shuttles, DRC signoff and tapeouts, supporting PDK and design tools, and accompanying customers from early information stages to small volume production. The contractor will also organize the backend for mainly academic customers, covering packaging, testing and delivery. Experience with GlobalFoundries technologies is required, focusing on 22FDX as well as 45RFE and 8XP.

Description

The Department Integrated Circuits and Systems ICS of Fraunhofer IIS is currently looking for a contractor for professional customer support in the field of microelectronics and IC layout. This includes dealing with international customers and review customers' IC designs. The contractor will have to act as primary interface between EUROPRACTICE respectively EU Chips Design Platform (EuroCDP) and Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries, manage MPW shuttles, signoff (DRC) and tapeouts, provide support related to PDK and design tools, customer engagement from early information stage to small volume production. Additionally, the contractor will provide customer support and organize the backend (packaging, testing and delivery) for our predominantly academic customers. The contractor needs to have experience with GlobalFoundries technologies, with focus on 22FDX but also other Globalfoundries technologies such as 45RFE and 8XP. Find more Information in the Tender Specification.

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  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

    Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Architecture & engineering services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    31 days left, 22 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €101,292 and €517,167.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 68 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • 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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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 2,000 awards for Architecture & engineering services in Germany.

Median award
€234,326
Middle half of past awards
€101,292 to €517,167

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.

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.

Germany

notices in the register
68
awards
32
awarded in total
€2.5M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
25
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
15%
of its calls state an estimated value
0%

Based on 26 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)
2.5
of those lots received a single tender
25%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
25%

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.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Architecture & engineering services - Germany

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
DB Engineering & Consulting GmbH 173 €6.8M Oct 2026
Drees & Sommer SE 91 €26.4M Oct 2026
ZETCON Ingenieure GmbH 51 €3.4M Oct 2026
IGS INGENIEURE GmbH & Co. KG 46 €8.0M Sep 2026
Schüßler-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH 40 €18.2M Aug 2026

Based on 12358 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

10 open tenders right now

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 Architecture & engineering services
21,035
median open notice
€469,424

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

Germany · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
6,986
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
3%
buyers awarded contracts here
3,448

Based on 12,358 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)
5.5
of those lots received a single tender
11%
of the awards went to companies based in another country
1%
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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