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26-0286 Purchase of a skid steer loader

26-0286 Kauf eines Kompakt Radladers — original title

DEGermany · FürthBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

Deadline: 3 November at 08:00 — 2 days left.
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What the buyer is looking for

Purchase of a compact wheel loader with standard bucket and pallet fork

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

Contract

BuyerStadt Fürth - Rf. V - Zentrale Vergabestelle →

TypeServices

Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures

Published20 Oct 2026

Place of performance90762 Fürth

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

10% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (11 awards since 2019, spread over 10 companies). That is well below the national norm (45%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 11 awards since 2019
The median procedure drew 2 bids (11 procedures with a bid count); 36% ended with a single bidder. Country: median 3.1 bids.n = 11
Not one of the 11 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. National average: 1%.n = 11

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 25/10/2026.

Clement

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

You don't need a GmbH or Ltd for this procedure — sole traders and freelancers may bid (Art. 19 Dir. 2014/24/EU). Eligibility counts, not legal form. More in the guide →

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

Company	Awards	Period
Bonifatius GmbH · Paderborn	2	2021–2022
METROPOL Protect GmbH	1	2023
HAKO	1	2021
Zimmerei Dümmler GmbH · Giebelstadt	1	2022
book-n-drive mobilitätssysteme GmbH · Wiesbaden	1	2019

From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

Deadline — Tuesday 3 November at 08:00

Tactics

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.

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Foreign bidders

In Germany, 6,022 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 725,088 recorded awards) — mostly from Austria, Poland, Italy.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

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Put together the evidence

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