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26-0291 Bauwerksprüfungen

DEGermany · FürthBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 11 November at 08:00 — 10 days left.
  2. You submit on RIB meinauftrag.de — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Free account on meinauftrag.rib.de required; submission is electronic via the platform, signature requirements are stated in the procedure details. Sort out account and signature first — not on submission day.
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Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published30 Oct 2026

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.

Tender documents at a glance

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Overview of RIB Tender usage terms and an ex-ante contract notice for structural inspections in Fürth

The input text combines two main elements: (1) the “RIB Tender – Nutzungsbedingungen für Bieter” (terms of use for bidders) issued by RIB Software GmbH, and (2) an ex-ante announcement (“Ex-ante-Bekanntmachung”) of an intended procurement procedure by the city of Fürth, Germany.

The perspective is clearly German: it refers to German law, German public procurement practice (UVgO, VHB forms), and a German contracting authority (Stadt Fürth).

RIB Tender is presented as a meta-platform for access to various German (and some regional) e-procurement portals, while the ex-ante notice sketches a forthcoming contract for structural bridge/building inspections in Fürth.

As background, the RIB Tender terms of use explain that RIB Tender is a meta-platform through which bidders can research tenders and download procurement documents from several connected German and regional e-tendering platforms (such as vergabe.bayern.de, vergabeplattform.berlin.de, etc.).

The text clarifies that to actually participate in a procurement procedure (submit a participation request or bid), the bidder must register on the respective underlying platform; RIB Tender only provides a central “single sign-on” and access point.

Thus, information about the substantive procurement requirements (such as bidder qualifications, award criteria, and contract-specific conditions) will be determined and published by the individual contracting authorities on their own platforms, not by RIB itself.

Concerning what the bidder must submit and minimum qualification requirements, the provided text does not specify any concrete forms, references, minimum turnover, insurance levels, or certificates for the Fürth contract.

The ex-ante notice only announces the intended procurement (“Vergaben ab 2026”, direct award “Direktauftrag”, Vergabenummer 26-0291) and the object: “Durchführung von 25 Haupt- bzw. 16 Einfachen Prüfungen nach DIN 1076 und RI-EBW-PRUF sowie Erstellung Bauwerksbücher gem ASB-ING”.

There is no detailed description of bidder eligibility or submission documents in this excerpt.

Instead, the RIB Tender terms emphasize that “Welche Unterlagen im Detail zur Verfügung stehen, wird von der jeweiligen Vergabestelle und nicht von RIB festgelegt,” i.e. the contracting authority (here: Stadt Fürth – Zentrale Vergabestelle) defines and provides the specific tender documents and requirements.

Consequently, for the requested topics related to bidder submissions and qualification, the input text informs only that these will appear in separate, authority-specific procurement documents, not in the RIB usage terms or the short ex-ante notice shown.

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Regarding the scope of the contract—what, how much, where, when—the ex-ante announcement provides some key parameters, albeit in summary form.

The subject of the contract is structural inspections (“Bauwerksprüfungen”) to be carried out at/for the “Bauhof” in Fürth, postal code 90768, with place of performance indicated as “Fürth”.

The quantity is described as “Durchführung von 25 Haupt- bzw. 16 Einfachen Prüfungen nach DIN 1076 und RI-EBW-PRUF sowie Erstellung Bauwerksbücher gem ASB-ING”, meaning 25 main inspections and 16 simple inspections of structures, in accordance with DIN 1076 and RI-EBW-PRÜF, plus the creation of structure logbooks according to ASB-ING. The time frame is a “voraussichtlicher Zeitraum der Ausführung” of April 2027 / May 2027, with the ex-ante publication date given as “30.10.2026”.

However, such as more detailed phasing, milestones, or extended performance periods, they are not included in this short notice and would have to be taken from the subsequent, full tender documents.

For award criteria and weighting, the text does not provide any specific information.

The ex-ante notice identifies the procurement as a “Direktauftrag” under UVgO (Unterschwellenvergabeordnung), which may imply a simplified award procedure and possibly a limited competitive setting, but it does not state whether price, quality, experience, or other factors will be used as award criteria or how they will be weighted.

Similarly, the RIB Tender usage terms deal only with the technical and legal framework of using the meta-platform and explicitly state that RIB does not determine the content of the procurement procedures: award criteria and their weighting remain the responsibility of the individual contracting authorities.

Thus, such as details on scoring matrices, price/quality ratios, or qualitative subcriteria, they are absent from the provided text and must be expected in the underlying tender documents from Stadt Fürth.

With respect to risks and special conditions (penalties, guarantees, subcontracting, validity period of offers, question deadlines, site visits), the excerpts again contain no contract-specific provisions.

The RIB Tender terms do address risks in relation to platform use: they state that RIB does not guarantee constant availability of the platform, does not warrant completeness or correctness of the information stored on RIB Tender, and is not liable for damage caused by infrastructure or internet transmission issues outside its control.

They also forbid certain technical uses such as webspider/crawler-based mass downloading and screenscraping, with the sanction that RIB may block users and pursue claims for damages in case of violations.

However, such as performance-related penalties, contractual guarantees, rules on subcontracting, bid validity, deadlines for bidder questions, or mandatory site visits specific to the Fürth inspection contract, these are not addressed in either the RIB terms or the brief ex-ante notice.

There are no obvious substantive contradictions about the contract scope or legal framework within the excerpt; instead, the RIB document clarifies that German law applies, that the place of performance for RIB’s own services is its seat in Stuttgart, and that in commercial business the exclusive jurisdiction lies with the courts competent for RIB’s seat.

For the public contract in Fürth, the ex-ante notice stands as an initial announcement, and any more detailed or potentially conflicting statements (such as changes in quantities, periods, or conditions) would only become visible in later, more complete tender documents, which are not part of the provided text.

Therefore, based on what is shown, the applicable statements are: RIB’s usage conditions govern platform use, while all procurement-specific details—including bidder requirements, award criteria, and contract conditions—for the “Bauwerksprüfungen” contract in Fürth will be determined and clarified by the Stadt Fürth central procurement office in separate tender documents accessed via the connected platform.

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Only the contracting authority's tender documents are binding. As of: 31/10/2026

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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.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
Bonifatius GmbH · Paderborn22021–2022
METROPOL Protect GmbH12023
HAKO12021
Zimmerei Dümmler GmbH · Giebelstadt12022
book-n-drive mobilitätssysteme GmbH · Wiesbaden12019
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.
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Deadline — Wednesday 11 November at 08:00

Tactics

This procedure allows 12 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, 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
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
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