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Conclusion of a non-exclusive rebate agreement pursuant to § 130a para. 8 SGB V for medicinal products with the active ingredient combination of tamsulosin and dutasteride (ATC G04CA52).

Abschluss eines nicht exklusiven Rabattvertrages nach § 130a Abs. 8 SGB V zu Arzneimitteln mit der Wirkstoffkombination aus Tamsulosin und Dutasterid (ATC G04CA52). — original title

DEGermany · Hannover
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: 27 March 2027 at 12:00 — 147 days left.
  2. You submit on Vergabemarktplatz (cosinex) — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Free bidder account on the cosinex platform required (created instantly); offers go through the bidding tool, usually plain text form suffices — no qualified signature. Sort out account and signature first — not on submission day.
  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 Niedersachsen offers the combination of tamsulosin and dutasteride (ATC G04CA52). The health insurance fund for the period until the entry into force of exclusive contracts following a formal procurement procedure under the regulations of Part 4 of the GWB to all interested pharmaceutical companies, without a selection decision, discount contracts. Contracts are concluded under an open-house model and act as a bridge between the start of generic competition (patent expiry) and the award of exclusive contracts. The contracts offered are not exclusive; Contracts with all market participants (pharmaceutical companies) are desired by AOK Niedersachsen. In the open-house model, uniform conditions apply to all participants. Contractual content, conditions and access procedures are uniform – individual negotiations are generally not conducted. The contract duration is a maximum of…

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… twenty-four months, the earliest contract start date is 01.06.2025. All contracts end at the latest on 31.05.2027, regardless of the date of the respective conclusion of the contract. An accession or conclusion of a contract can take place within the twenty-four-month period on the first of each month. There is a right of termination for six weeks at the end of each month. The AOK Lower Saxony. The health insurance company reserves the right to replace the non-exclusive open-house discount contracts with exclusive discount contracts already during the term of the contract. With the entry into force of exclusive discount contracts, the open-house contracts are terminated in accordance with the contractual arrangement, i.e. the open-house contracts end automatically. According to the experience of AOK Niedersachsen, exclusive discount contracts usually enter into force six to eight months after the publication of the corresponding call for tenders in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union. Future contractors in the open-house model are invited to regularly consult the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union regarding these tender notices. Interested pharmaceutical companies can request the contract documents as well as the contract conditions at the contact address mentioned under I.1). Contracts for the active substance combination of tamsulosin and dutasteride (ATC G04CA52) will be concluded for the first time with effect from 01.06.2025. Interested parties who wish to become contractual partners on this date must submit the contract documents to the address specified in the contract documents by 24.04.2025. It depends on the access at the AOK Niedersachsen. Subsequent contracts can be concluded during the maximum period of twenty-four months at the first of each month. Organisationally, a lead time of usually 35 calendar days is necessary on the part of the AOK in order to be able to guarantee the necessary work, e.g. the contract registration in the Lauer-Taxe®. The exact deadlines for receipt will be announced with the contract documents. This publication does not constitute the award of a public contract within the meaning of Directive (2014/24/EU) or public procurement law. Publication in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union shall be carried out in order to ensure as much transparency as possible as regards the intended conclusion of contracts. 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 subcontracting regulations, insofar as they are not obligatory for legal reasons, is not associated with this.

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

Contract

TypeSupplies
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published7 Apr 2025
ProcedureOpen procedure
Contract period1 Jun 2025 → 31 May 2027
Framework agreement

Type of service

33 · Medical equipment & pharma
CPV 33600000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 27% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (12 awards since 2022, spread over 9 companies). That is well below the sector norm (62%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 12 awards since 2022
  • The median procedure drew just one bid (10 procedures with a bid count); 90% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 10
  • 8% of awards went to companies from abroad (12 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 1%.n = 12

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
In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (21,721 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

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Other economic requirement
Gemäß § 130a Abs. 8 Satz 1 SGB V können Rabattverträge nur mit pharmazeutischen Unternehmern i. S. d. § 4 Abs. 18 AMG (bzw. einer Vertragsgemeinschaft aus pharmazeutischen Unternehmern) abgeschlossen werden, wobei sich die Eigenschaft der Vertragspartner als p… read in fullcollapse
Gemäß § 130a Abs. 8 Satz 1 SGB V können Rabattverträge nur mit pharmazeutischen Unternehmern i. S. d. § 4 Abs. 18 AMG (bzw. einer Vertragsgemeinschaft aus pharmazeutischen Unternehmern) abgeschlossen werden, wobei sich die Eigenschaft der Vertragspartner als pharmazeutische Unternehmer auf die jeweils angebotenen Arzneimittel bezieht. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass Arzneimittel im Geltungsbereich des AMG nur durch einen pharmazeutischen Unternehmer in den Verkehr gebracht werden dürfen, der seinen Sitz im Geltungsbereich des AMG, in einem anderen Mitgliedstaat der Europäischen Union oder in einem anderen Vertragsstaat des Abkommens über den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum hat (§ 9 Abs. 2 Satz 1 AMG). Örtliche Vertreter eines pharmazeutischen Unternehmers können sich nur dann beteiligen, wenn sie selbst pharmazeutischer Unternehmer i. S. d. § 4 Abs. 18 AMG hinsichtlich der jeweils angebotenen Arzneimittel sind.
Requirement texts are quoted in the notice's original language — only the official wording is binding.

Tender documents — direct download

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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
Horn GmbH · Stutensee32025
DIGOTEX GmbH · Niederfischbach22026
Stackfield GmbH · München12026
COMRAMO AG · Hannover12026
AbZ Pharma GmbH · Ulm12022
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

91
2022
101
2023
134
2024
84
2025
86
2026
496 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 — Saturday, 27 March 2027 at 12:00

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 21,721 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 720 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,071 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.
This procedure is published on 2 portals
Bids are submitted on Vergabemarktplatz (cosinex) — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
TEDNoticeVergabemarktplatz (cosinex)Submission portal
Put together the evidence — in German
The criterion on the left, plus your price.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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