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✓On award criteria and weighting, the procedure is purely price‑based.

✓Such as explicitly stated in section 9.2, the only evaluation criterion is “Preis” with a weighting of 100%.

✓The lowest bid price receives 10 points; all other offers receive points calculated as: Punkte Bieter = 10 × (Niedrigstpreis / Bieterpreis).

✓The offer with the highest total score receives the award, provided it meets all formal and eligibility requirements and prices are considered appropriate.

✓The contracting authority reserves the right to exclude offers with speculative item prices, i.e. where the bidder has deliberately shifted costs between items rather than pricing individual services at their true calculated cost, judged against the authority’s own cost estimates and the prices of other bidders.

✓Concerning risks and special conditions, the documents emphasise that incomplete, late, formally incorrect or altered bids will be excluded (e.g. failure to use the correct forms, missing names under § 126b BGB, changes to the tender/contract documents, or submission after the deadline).

✓There is no mention of a mandatory site visit; all communication and clarifications must take place via the Vergabemarktplatz; telephone enquiries are excluded.

✓For labour and social standards under the BbgVergG, the bidder undertakes far‑reaching obligations: such as allowing inspections of wage and employment records, ensuring subcontractors and labour hire companies submit equivalent declarations, and accepting contractual penalties of 1% of the contract sum per proven case of underpayment or obstruction of controls (max. 5% of the contract sum, capped at 250,000 EUR in total).

✓Additional contractual penalties for delay may be agreed under ZVB‑Bbg/VOL/B up to 5% of the value of the non‑usable part of the service (with an absolute cap of 8% in individually negotiated cases).

✓Subcontracting is allowed, but the main contractor remains fully liable; use of other companies’ capacities (Eignungsleihe) requires full submission of all relevant forms (especially Formblatt 09 & 10), a binding capacity commitment and, in some cases, joint and several liability.

✓The authority can require replacement of subcontractors or auxiliary companies that fail eligibility conditions; replacing them after submission generally needs explicit written approval.

✓Bidding consortia must provide a signed Bietergemeinschaft declaration, appoint a lead member and accept joint and several liability, and they may not simultaneously bid as individual tenderers or in several consortia.

✓Regarding contradictions or corrections within the documents, there is a notable inconsistency between the Ausschreibungs‑ und Bewerbungsbedingungen and the Angebotsvordruck concerning Lot 2: the former consistently refers to “Lieferung von High‑Speed‑Photodioden mit einer Bandbreite von 2 GHz”, whereas one place in the Angebotsvordruck lists “Lieferung von Akustik‑Messtechnik” for Lot 2. Based on the contractual hierarchy in ZVB‑Bbg/VOL/B (§ 1: in case of contradictions, the Leistungsbeschreibung and specific contractual conditions take precedence over other documents) and the clear, repeated definition of Lot 2 in the Ausschreibungsbedingungen, this “Akustik‑Messtechnik” wording is to be treated as a likely clerical error in the form.

✓The applicable content for Lot 2 is therefore the description in the Ausschreibungs‑ und Bewerbungsbedingungen and the Leistungsbeschreibung (i.e. high‑speed photodiodes, 2 GHz).

✓Where further contradictions arise, the hierarchy given in the ZVB‑Bbg and in section 1.5 of the Ausschreibungs‑ und Bewerbungsbedingungen applies: first the client’s tender and contract documents in their latest version (including clarifications/Bieterfragen), then the contractor’s offer, then ZVB‑Bbg with VOL/B, and lastly supplementary conditions from the BbgVergG.