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Supply of rails and sleepers 2027

Lieferung von Schienen und Schwellen 2027 — original title

DEGermany

Your path to submission

Deadline: 24 November at 10:00 — 23 days left.
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.
Offer and evidence in: German.
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

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

Contract

BuyerStadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main mbH (VGF) →

TypeSupplies

Estimated valuevalue not published

Published25 Oct 2026

ProcedureAuftragsbekanntmachung Sektorenrichtlinie, Standardregelung Offenes Verfahren (Lieferungen)

Place of performance60311 Frankfurt am Main

Type of service

33 · Medical equipment & pharma34 · Transport equipment

CPV 33141760 · 34941200 · 34947100

Clement

In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (21,723 with a known bid count), usually only 2 offers 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.

What you must prove — eligibility criteria

From the notice of the same procedure on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily.

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Quality management

Qualitätsfähigkeit Q1 muss vorliegen

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Quality management

Qualitätsfähigkeit Q1 muss vorliegen

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Quality management

Qualitätsfähigkeit Q1 muss vorliegen

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Quality management

Qualitätsfähigkeit Q1 muss vorliegen

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Security/guarantee required

Requirement texts are quoted in the notice's original language — only the official wording is binding.

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]

Websitewww.vgf-ffm.de/

Deadline — Tuesday 24 November at 10:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 21,723 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 29 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The rules of the market →

Foreign bidders

In Germany · Medical equipment & pharma, 270 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 22,355 recorded awards) — mostly from Austria, Netherlands, France.

Submission language: German.

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.

This procedure is published on 4 portals

Bids are submitted on HAD or Deutsche eVergabe — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.

HADSubmission portalTEDNoticeÖffentliche Vergabe (Datenservice)NoticeDeutsche eVergabeSubmission portal

Put together the evidence — in German

The 4 criteria on the left, plus your price.

Submit via HAD — Hessische Ausschreibungsdatenbank before the deadline

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

To the procurement portal →Official notice on TED →

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