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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 6 different companies have won the last 6 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 6 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 University of Cologne is procuring the provision of Citrix licences. The scope of the contract covers the supply of these licences together with the related maintenance services for a term of two years. The buyer is a university, and the contract is a software licensing arrangement including ongoing maintenance support over the two-year period.
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Official source
Source: Vergabemarktplatz NRW (open data satellites)
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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 588 awards for Software & IT systems in Germany.
- Median award
- €413,549
- Middle half of past awards
- €243,398 to €924,527
Vergabemarktplatz NRW (open data satellites) 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 profileUniversität zu Köln, Abteilung 64 - Einkauf
- notices in the register
- 150
- awards
- 77
- awarded in total
- €938,000
Who wins its contracts
Many suppliers- different companies won its awards
- 67
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 11%
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 2%
Based on 75 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.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASIS 1 Softwarevertriebs GmbH | 1 | Oct 2025 | |
| Concat AG | 1 | Dec 2025 | |
| SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG | 1 | Dec 2025 | |
| Scheer GmbH | 1 | Mar 2026 | |
| SecureW2 B.V | 1 | Jul 2026 |
Based on 6 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
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Market context
Vergabemarktplatz NRW (open data satellites) 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
- 3,132
- median open notice
- €550,000
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersGermany · Software & IT systems
- different companies won awards here
- 988
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 11%
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 816
Based on 1,827 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.
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