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OpenHouse Procedure Diverse Pharmaceutical Active Ingredients from 01.10.2025

OpenHouse-Verfahren Diverse Arzneimittelwirkstoffe ab 01.10.2025 — original title

DEGermany · Düsseldorf
Open-house procedure. Any company meeting the conditions can join the contract — there is no competition for an award. The date shown is the end of the joining phase or of the contract term.

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 31 December 2027 at 12:00 — 425 days left.
  2. The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
  3. Offer and evidence in: German.
  4. 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

AOK Rheinland/Hamburg announces the conclusion of non-exclusive discount agreements pursuant to Section 130a(8) SGB V with the possibility of concluding them at any time as part of the so-called "Open House procedure" for various active pharmaceutical ingredients with the earliest possible start of the contract on 1 October 2025. The specific active pharmaceutical ingredients and the respective, earliest possible start of the contract can be found in the current list of active pharmaceutical ingredients in the project room of the procurement portal DTVP under the heading "Procurement documents". Subject to uniform contractual conditions and a uniform access procedure, all suitable and interested pharmaceutical companies or communities of pharmaceutical companies are offered the opportunity to conclude or join a discount agreement pursuant to § 130a(8) SGB V. Interested pharmaceutical…

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… companies can obtain the participation documents in the project room of the procurement portal DTVP under the heading "Procurement documents". Prerequisite for the conclusion of a contract is that the interested pharmaceutical company sends the requested participation documents in full and signed to the following e-mail inbox: [email protected]. Via this e-mail inbox, all documents and documents for the implementation of the OpenHouse procedure are exchanged between the companies and the pharmaceutical center of the AOK Rheinland/Hamburg. A contract is concluded with each pharmaceutical company that meets the requirements for participation. There is no exclusivity. Accession or conclusion of the contract may take place at any time and under the same conditions. Individual contract negotiations are not conducted. . The earliest contract start date is 01.10.2025. The conclusion or accession to a discount contract is possible at any time, i.e. also after 01.10.2025. The contract period ends uniformly on 31.12.2027, regardless of the individual start of the contract. The list of active substances covered by the contract is amended at irregular intervals. In this case, all companies verified in the project room on the procurement portal DTVP will receive an e-mail with an indication of which active ingredients have been added and when the respective, earliest possible start of the contract is. Should AOK Rheinland/Hamburg conduct an invitation to tender for exclusive contracts in the form of an EU-wide, open procedure during the term of the contract, the contracts concluded within the framework of this publication will be terminated in accordance with the contractual provisions. This publication does not constitute the award of a public contract within the meaning of the Public Procurement Coordination Directive (2014/24/EC) or public procurement law. In order to ensure the highest level of transparency for the intended conclusion of contracts, publication in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union takes place. In the absence of a publication form, the contract notice shall be used. The resulting conceptual requirements, such as the procedural designation "open procedure", are solely due to the use of this notice form and the publication platform. A further meaning, in particular a submission to public procurement regulations, insofar as they are not obligated for legal reasons, is not associated with this.

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

Contract

TypeSupplies
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published26 May 2025
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

33 · Medical equipment & pharma
CPV 33600000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (109 awards, most recently March 2025) — by that rhythm the next award was due around May 2025. The last award went to SMART OTC GmbH.n = 109
  • 37% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (209 awards since 2018, spread over 133 companies). That is well below the sector norm (62%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 209 awards since 2018
  • The median procedure drew just one bid (204 procedures with a bid count); 72% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 204
  • Across 6 procedures with structured selection criteria, this buyer most often required: Trade register enrolment (4 of 6), Staff qualifications (2 of 6), References: services (1 of 6), Minimum turnover in the contract field (1 of 6).n = 6
  • Not one of the 209 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 1%.n = 209

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Clement
In this buyer's last 256 comparable contracts (same sector), usually only a single offer 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

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Trade register enrolment
siehe Vergabeunterlagen
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 1
Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration
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Administrative conditions
The full notice, official wording

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
Novartis Pharma GmbH · Nürnberg182015–2024
Bayer Vital GmbH · Leverkusen82018–2025
s. Beschreibung des Auftrags · s. Beschreibung des Auftrags62017–2019
GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG · München62017–2024
Servier Deutschland GmbH · München62015–2023
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

12
2019
17
2020
17
2021
20
2022
28
2023
73
2024
82
2025
4
2026
253 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Friday, 31 December 2027 at 12:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, there was usually a single bid in the end. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 256 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 950 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). Much more generous than usual — time for a thorough bid rather than a quick one.

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 TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.
Put together the evidence — in German
The criterion on the left, plus your price.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
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