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Postal services

Postdienstleistungen — original title

DEGermany

Your path to submission

Deadline for requests to participate: 17 November at 23:59 — 16 days left. Two-stage procedure: by this deadline you submit a request to participate (proof of eligibility). Only shortlisted firms are then invited to submit a tender.
You submit on HAD — Hessische Ausschreibungsdatenbank — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Free bidder account on the state platform required; electronic submission, usually plain text form. 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.

Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

Postal services Postal services in connection with the preparation and holding of Landtag elections, referendums, referendums as well as Bundestag elections and European elections in Hesse (framework agreement) Election notifications Promotion and delivery of notifications to voters in Hesse about the registration in the voters' register, in referendums combined with official information on the subject matter of the referendum Postal election and postal voting documents Transport and delivery of postal voting and postal voting documents from the 421 municipal authorities in Hesse to voters in Hesse and abroad Return of election letters Provision of nationwide delivery options for election letters of voters in Germany as well as promotion and delivery of election letters for the Landtag elections, referendums and referendums to the 421 electoral offices in Hese (applies only to Landtag elections, referendums, referendums, referendums)

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

Contract

BuyerLand Hessen, vertreten durch das Hessische Competence Center für Neue Verwaltungssteuerung -Delivery Center Beschaffungen →

TypeServices

Estimated valuevalue not published

Published15 Oct 2026

ProcedureAuftragsbekanntmachung allgemeine Richtlinie, Standardregelung Nichtoffenes Verfahren (Dienstleistungen)

Type of service

60 · Transport services

CPV 60160000

Clement

References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

Eligibility analysis from the tender documents

Tender documents — direct download

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Annex

Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitevergabe.hessen.de

Deadline — Tuesday 17 November at 23:59

Deadline for requests to participate

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 12,365 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 33 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). A normal window for this market.

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Foreign bidders

In Germany · Transport services, 42 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 13,053 recorded awards) — mostly from Poland, Austria, Netherlands.

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 HAD — Hessische Ausschreibungsdatenbank. 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 HAD — Hessische Ausschreibungsdatenbank before the deadline

Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.

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