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BSE topography and multichannel measuring device for SEM

BSE-Topographie und Multikanal-Messgerät für REM — original title

DEGermanyBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 3 November at 13:00 — 3 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.
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What the buyer is looking for

It is a measurement system for the expansion of the Hitachi SU70 in the OES. Procurement is carried out as part of a funding project and its objective. The procurement serves the planned project investment and the implementation of the objectives formulated in the funding application. The focus of the investment is the planned topography measurement technology in the scanning electron microscope, which specifically addresses a specific project requirement: It enables the precise measurement of the lateral and height dimensions of the front and back texture of TOPCon solar cells and is thus a central prerequisite for patent infringement analyses to be carried out. For the technical implementation in a Hitachi SU70 FE-SEM and to be able to precisely locate specific areas on the solar cells, a technical extension of the REM/EBIC measuring station is required. Compared to an outdated system,…

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… the new system provides the necessary extended measurement possibilities through a better signal-to-noise ratio and the provision of optional coupling with other signal sources.

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

BuyerFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. | IMWS
TypeSupplies
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published20 Oct 2026
ProcedureÖffentliche Ausschreibung (UVO)

Type of service

38 · Laboratory & optical equipment
CPV 38511000
Clement
In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (12,100 with a known bid count), usually only a single offer came in — a solid bid has real chances.
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Deadline — Tuesday 3 November at 13:00

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 12,100 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 14 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,071 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In Germany · Laboratory & optical equipment, 578 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 12,560 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Netherlands, United Kingdom.

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
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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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