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Manual SMT assembly and dosing system for prototypes and 3D MID applications

Manuelles SMT-Bestückungs- und Dosiersys-tem für Prototypen und 3D-MID-Anwendungen — original title

DEGermanyBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 2 November — 2 days left. The source gives only the day, no time of day — on the portal the deadline is usually in the morning. Check the exact time there before you plan.
  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

General presentation of the organisation: 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 out the annual financial volume of 3.4 ...

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

Contract

BuyerFraunhofer-Institut für Entwurfstechnik Mechatronik IEM →
TypeSupplies
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published13 Oct 2026
ProcedureÖffentliche Ausschreibung (UVO)

Type of service

42 · Industrial machinery
CPV 42418900
Clement
In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (6,656 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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Vergabebedingungen.pdf
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LV_422299.pdf
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Deadline — Monday 2 November

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 6,656 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 21 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

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 · Industrial machinery, 230 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 6,872 recorded awards) — mostly from Switzerland, Italy, France.

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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