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Framework contract for street lighting
Rahmenvertrag Straßenbeleuchtung — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 4 November at 11:00 — 3 days left.
- 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.
- Offer and evidence in: German.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
What the buyer is looking for
Road lighting management · The contractor, as plant operator, assumes responsibility for the safe operation and condition of the road lighting network. As the owner of the plant, the city of Papenburg is subject to the traffic safety obligation. The Contractor shall assist the City in this respect by providing and carrying out appropriate inspection services in order to enable the City of Papenburg to meet its traffic safety obligations. The contractor must also inform the plant owner whether there is a plant condition that indicates that the city of Papenburg no longer fulfils its traffic safety obligation. The operator concept shall specify the measures envisaged. These are, as far as no renewal or testing of stability is associated with this, compensated with the lump sum. If an equipment is no longer in a technically perfect condition and the safety of persons/plants is endangered as…
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… a result, this will be notified to the city in good time. The city then commissions the implementation of the security-relevant measures in a timely manner. If the timely commissioning of the measures by the city does not take place, the corresponding responsibility for these parts of the plant is transferred to the city and the contractor is not responsible for the resulting defects, damage and damage to the legal interests of third parties. Other scopes of the service are: Lighting control, fault acceptance, maintenance control, operating reserve warehouse, inspection. Scope of fault management: fault acceptance, fault repair, damage tracking, repair.
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Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 40% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (85 awards since 2018, spread over 51 companies). That is well below the sector norm (52%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 85 awards since 2018
- The median procedure drew 3 bids (84 procedures with a bid count); 27% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 84
- Across 11 procedures with structured selection criteria, this buyer most often required: Professional register enrolment (11 of 11), Special authorisation or membership required (11 of 11), References: services (11 of 11), Minimum annual headcount (11 of 11).n = 11
- Not one of the 85 awards with a known winner country has gone to a foreign company so far. Sector average: 1%.n = 85
- From notice to award takes a median 68 days here (15 procedures). Sector: 83 days.n = 15
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.
What you must prove — eligibility criteria
Tender documents — direct download
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.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| JOHANN BUNTE Bauunternehmung SE & Co. KG · Papenburg | 7 | 2022–2026 |
| Dr. Ehlers - Unland Beratende Ingenieure PartG mbB | 4 | 2024–2025 |
| Picobello Gebäudereinigung GmbH & Co. KG · Papenburg | 4 | 2021–2025 |
| Gebäudereinigung Wilhelm Kühne GmbH & Co. KG · Oldenburg | 3 | 2025 |
| Kolping Bildungswerk DV OS e.V. · Salzbergen | 3 | 2022–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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 10,795 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 30 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). A normal window for this market.
Foreign bidders
In Germany · Repair & maintenance, 74 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 12,861 recorded awards) — mostly from Austria, Netherlands, Poland.
Submission language: German.
How to bid
Guide: how to apply on cosinex Vergabemarktplatz / DTVP → Registration, signature, fees — from the operator's bidder manual.
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