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Procurement of Microsoft on-premises licenses
Beschaffung Microsoft On-Premises-Lizenzen — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 2 November at 12:30 — 2 days left.
- You submit on Deutsche eVergabe — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- 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
The subject of the tender is the procurement of Microsoft on-premises licenses for the client's existing IT infrastructure. The service includes the delivery of the tendered Microsoft licenses including the required proof of use and license as well as defined repurchase options. Consulting, migration, installation, operation and support services are not part of the tender. · 1. The subject of the tender is the procurement of Microsoft licenses for the current version of the existing on-premises infrastructure. The procurement includes only the delivery of the licenses including the necessary proof of use and licenses. Consulting, migration, installation, operations, managed services, support, hosting and software implementation services are not part of the package. 2. Procurement procedure and contract basis An EU-wide procurement procedure is foreseen based on the estimated total value…
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… of the contract. The award is made as an open procedure in accordance with Sections 14 et seq. of the VgV. Particularly relevant are GWB, VgV and EVB-IT transfer type A. 3. Scope of services and quantity framework Item No. Licence item Quantity 1 Microsoft Office 2024 Standard 2.000 1.1 Repurchase option Office 2024 Standard max. 200 2 Windows Server 2025 CAL User 2.000 3 Exchange Server SE Standard CAL 2.000 4 Exchange Server SE Enterprise CAL Add-on 850 5 RDS User CAL 2025 1.700 6 Windows Server 2025 Datacenter Core licenses 568 Cores Licence items 2 to 6 are subject to repurchase options of a maximum of 10 % of the respective initial quantity within the four-year observation period. For Office Standard, the separately stated repurchase option of a maximum of 200 licenses within two years applies. There is no acceptance obligation. 4. The offered licenses must be Microsoft-compliant, audit-proof, auditable and fully documentable. 5. Repurchase conditions and price maintenance Repurchases are optional demand items. The maximum quantity per licence item shall not exceed 10 % of the initial quantity. Tenderers must indicate a binding repurchase price for each item. The maximum option quantities are taken into account when determining the estimated contract value and in the price evaluation. Price changes by the manufacturer during agreed price fixing periods are not at the expense of the customer. Tender submission and proof of suitability Tenders must be submitted using the mandatory Excel attachment. The proposed prices must be completed in full. • Completed price sheet • Bidder's self-declaration • at least three comparable references for the delivery of Microsoft volume licenses of comparable size within the last three years • valid Microsoft partner status or equivalent proof of an authorized and licensing-legal reference route The references are exclusively for the aptitude test and are not evaluated as an award criterion. A specific Microsoft Partner Status or Partner Level is not required; equivalent proof of a proper reference route is permitted. 7. Award criteria Award criterion Weighting Price 80 % Repurchase price 15 % Delivery period 5 % 8. Evaluation methodology The award criteria will be assessed on a scale of 0 to 10 points. The points achieved are multiplied by the respective weighting. Price (80 %): The lowest evaluable comparative price receives 10 points. Further offers: (lowest evaluable benchmark price / tenderer's benchmark price) × 10. The benchmark price includes basic quantities and defined maximum repurchase options.Repurchase price (15 %): The lowest evaluable weighted repurchase price receives 10 points. Further offers: (lowest evaluable weighted repurchase price / tenderer’s weighted repurchase price) × 10. Delivery period (5 %): up to 14 Arb
Contract
Type of service
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JobRad GmbH · Freiburg im Breisgau | 2 | 2026 |
| Losberger GmbH · Bad Rappenau | 2 | 2018 |
| VAMED Health Project GmbH · Berlin | 2 | 2017 |
| Dimension Data Communications Deutschland GmbH · Teltow | 1 | 2014 |
| Subitec medizintechnische Beratungsgesellschaft mbH · Sulzbach | 1 | 2010 |
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, there was usually a single bid in the end. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 15,898 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 27 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,071 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.
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 · Software & IT systems, 347 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 16,515 recorded awards) — mostly from Switzerland, Italy, Austria.
Submission language: German.
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