The Aperlena Verdict
Open raceNo supplier dominates: 4 different companies have won the last 4 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 4 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 summaryThis tender concerns the provision of private passenger transport by coach, mainly in Germany and Austria. The service consists of transporting military personnel to military exercises and military training courses. The contract covers closed (non-public) coach transport services, with journeys carried out using touring coaches. The scope of the transport is primarily cross-border, focused on destinations in Germany and Austria, and the traffic serves the movement needs of the armed forces for exercises and training activities.
Description
Terms of the procedure
- How tenders are scored
- Laagste Prijs
- Small firms
- The buyer marks this procedure as suitable for small and medium-sized firms.
- Tenders go to
- s2c.mercell.com/today/222283
As the official notice states them.
Bid or no-bid?
Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.
Can I bid?
- Restricted procedure: suppliers first ask to take part, and only those the buyer selects are invited to bid. Above the EU threshold: open to companies from any EU country.
- The notice is written in Dutch.
- Certificates from another EU country? Check the equivalents on eCertis
Official source
Source: TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU)
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Last verified against TED - Tenders Electronic Daily (Publications Office of the EU) 1 day ago
Expected award price
- likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €3,500,000
- €3.4M to €3.6M
Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 100% of their published estimate, half of them between 97% and 102%, based on 26 awards of the last 3 years.
Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.
What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 402 awards for Transport services in Germany.
- This notice
- €3.5M
- Median award
- €578,772
- Middle half of past awards
- €220,488 to €2.0M
The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.
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 profileMinisterie van Defensie
- notices in the register
- 653
- awards
- 298
- awarded in total
- €938.3M
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 236
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 5%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 77%
Based on 266 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)
- 3.4
- of those lots received a single tender
- 27%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 32%
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, Transport services - Germany
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regionalverkehr Oberbayern GmbH | 42 | Oct 2026 | |
| Malteser Hilfsdienst gGmbH | 16 | €14.5M | Sep 2026 |
| Geldhauser Linien- und Reiseverkehr GmbH | 15 | Jun 2026 | |
| Verkehrsbetrieb Ettenhuber GmbH | 13 | Aug 2026 | |
| Geldhauser Kleinbusservice GmbH & Co. KG | 9 | €27.6M | May 2026 |
Based on 1272 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.
33 open tenders right now
Market context
Larger than 74% of the open notices in Transport services across Europe.
- open now in Transport services
- 1,075
- median open notice
- €697,745
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersGermany · Transport services
- different companies won awards here
- 889
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 6%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 685
Based on 1,272 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)
- 6.0
- of those lots received a single tender
- 12%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 1%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 1%
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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Matched by meaning across languages, from the notices' own words: the same kind of contract, open now in another country.
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