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PR1284270 - Purchase of three rack servers as hardware basis for a Proxmox cluster

PR1284270 - Kauf von drei Rackservern als Hardwarebasis für einen Proxmox-Cluster — original title

DEGermanyBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 2 November at 12:00 — 2 days left.
  2. You submit on Deutsche eVergabe — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Germany, is one of the leading organisations for application-oriented research. It plays a central role in the innovation process – with a focus on research in key technologies relevant to the future and the transfer of research results to industry to strengthen our business location and for the benefit of our society. The organisation, founded in 1949, currently operates 76 institutes and research institutions in Germany. The currently almost 32,000 employees, mainly with training in natural sciences or engineering, work on the annual financial volume of €3.4 billion. Of this amount, €3.0 billion falls on the ...

Excerpt from the tender documents (LV_PR1284270_24.09.2026.pdf), machine-translated — the original is under “Documents”.

Contract

BuyerFraunhofer Institut FOKUS →
TypeSupplies
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published28 Sept 2026
ProcedureÖffentliche Ausschreibung (UVO)

Type of service

48 · Software & IT systems
CPV 48822000
Clement
In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (15,898 with a known bid count), usually only a single offer came in — a solid bid has real chances.
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

Tender documents — direct download

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AEB_D_04-26.pdf
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LV_420925.pdf
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Deadline — Monday 2 November at 12:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, there was usually a single bid in the end. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 15,898 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 35 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,071 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

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Foreign bidders

In Germany · Software & IT systems, 347 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 16,515 recorded awards) — mostly from Switzerland, Italy, Austria.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents
Goes directly to this tender on Deutsche eVergabe. The full specification and all annexes are there.
Put together the evidence
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via Deutsche eVergabe before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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