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White Light Interferometer

Weißlichtinterferometer — original title

DEGermany · Saarbrücken

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 2 November at 12:00 — 1 day left.
  2. You submit on AI Vergabeplattform — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Free bidder account on the state platform required; electronic submission, usually plain text form. 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

White light interferometer (WLI) for optical, non-contact measurement of 3-D profile roughness and smooth surfaces.

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

Contract

TypeSupplies
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published30 Sept 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Place of performanceSaarbrücken

Type of service

38 · Laboratory & optical equipment
CPV 38600000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (26 awards, most recently October 2026) — the next award is due around December 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to Sartorius Lab Instruments Gmbh & Co. KG.n = 26
  • 66% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (227 awards since 2024, spread over 76 companies). That is well above the sector norm (40%) — newcomers have a harder time here than elsewhere.n = 227 awards since 2024
  • 1% of the bids received came from other countries (77 procedures with a bid mix) — all bidders, not just the winners. Sector: 16%.n = 77
  • 83% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (77 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 60%.n = 77
  • The median procedure drew just one bid (217 procedures with a bid count); 58% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 1 bid.n = 217

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 30/10/2026.

Clement
In this buyer's last 31 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.

Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in German.

Eligibility analysis from the tender documents

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
Firma Elektro Hoppstädter GmbH182024–2026
Alucon GmbH · Völklingen142024
Erich Freidinger GmbH72024–2025
ComPeri GmbH · Karlsfeld72024–2026
EVK GmbH · Neunkirchen62025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

30
2024
26
2025
9
2026
65 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 — Monday 2 November 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 31 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 34 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,071 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

Foreign bidders

In Germany · Laboratory & optical equipment, 578 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 12,560 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Netherlands, United Kingdom.

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 3 portals
Bids are submitted on AI Vergabeplattform — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
Put together the evidence — in German
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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