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WEAM tool head with feeding system

WEAM-Werkzeugkopf mit Zuführsystem — original title

DEGermanyBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 13 November at 10:00 — 12 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

2.1.1 Provision of a tool head that applies wires in the diameter range 0.05 - 0.6 mm to a component using the WEAM (Wire Encapsulation Additive Manufacturing) process. (F)

Excerpt from the tender documents (PR1317019_Leistungsverzeichnis.pdf), machine-translated — the original is under “Documents”.

Contract

BuyerFraunhofer Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik (IWU) →
TypeSupplies
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published16 Oct 2026
ProcedureÖffentliche Ausschreibung (VOL)

Type of service

42 · Industrial machinery44 · Construction materials
CPV 42611000 · 42672000 · 42673000 · 42674000 · 44514200
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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AEB_04-26_deutsch.pdf
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Deadline — Friday 13 November at 10:00

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

This procedure allows 28 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

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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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