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Renewal of process data processing and selected measuring equipment - Rheinwasser Examination Station Mainz-Wiesbaden (RUSt) (repeated award)
Erneuerung der Prozessdatenverarbeitung und ausgewählter Messeinrichtungen - Rheinwasser-Untersuchungsstation Mainz-Wiesbaden (RUSt) (wiederholende Vergabe)) — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 20 November at 09:00 — 19 days left.
- You submit on Vergabemarktplatz (cosinex) — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Free bidder account on the cosinex platform required (created instantly); offers go through the bidding tool, usually plain text form suffices — no qualified signature. Sort out account and signature first — not on submission day.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
What the buyer is looking for
This is a repetitive call for tenders, since the first call for tenders with the award number LfU_13_20/2026 had to be cancelled. In the Rheinwasser-Versuchungsstation (RUSt) Mainz-Wiesbaden, Adenauer-Ufer 10, 55120 Mainz, water is pumped out of the Rhine, inspected for its quality and the measured values are stored, transmitted to a central database and partly made visible to the public via the Internet. Process data processing and selected measuring equipment are to be renewed here. Process data processing includes the process control system and an automation device. Initiation The control system used &t;InTouch" the company AVEVA (formerly Wonderware) has been in use for several years on the current hardware platform, no longer meets current requirements for such systems and already has some shortcomings. It is to be decommissioned as soon as possible, since there is no more technical…
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… support, the hardware is clearly in use over the predicted period of use and the operating systems used are to be classified as critical for security purposes.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 44% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (244 awards since 2018, spread over 138 companies). 56% went to new names.n = 244 awards since 2018
- The median procedure drew 3 bids (238 procedures with a bid count); 29% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 4 bids.n = 238
- The award came in at a median 93% of the estimated value (23 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 89%.n = 23
- Across 14 procedures with structured selection criteria, this buyer most often required: References: services (12 of 14), Professional liability insurance (11 of 14), Staff qualifications (5 of 14), Equipment, plant and technical facilities (4 of 14).n = 14
- 95% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (32 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 87%.n = 32
From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Tender documents — direct download
Who has won at this buyer so far
Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Labor für Wasser und Umwelt GmbH · Bad Liebenwerda | 9 | 2024–2026 |
| Planungsgesellschaft Scholz + Lewis mbH | 9 | 2019–2026 |
| WildVet | 7 | 2023–2026 |
| SGL Spezial- und Bergbau-Servicegesellschaft Lauchhammer mbH · Lauchhammer | 6 | 2025 |
| GEO-data GmbH · Garbsen | 6 | 2023–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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Tactics
When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 3 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 37 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). Much more generous than usual — time for a thorough bid rather than a quick one.
Foreign bidders
In Germany · Construction work, 687 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 244,229 recorded awards) — mostly from Austria, France, Poland.
How to bid
Guide: how to apply on cosinex Vergabemarktplatz / DTVP → Registration, signature, fees — from the operator's bidder manual.
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