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Support services for the project ‘Customer Support with focus on Microelectronics and IC Layout’
Support services for the project „Customer Support with focus on Microelectronics and IC Layout“ — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 9 November at 10:00 — 8 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 Department Integrated Circuits and Systems ICS of Fraunhofer IIS is currently looking for a contractor for professional customer support in the field of microelectronics and IC layout. This includes dealing with international customers and review customers' IC designs. The contractor will have to act as primary interface between EUROPRACTICE respectively EU Chips Design Platform (EuroCDP) and Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries, manage MPW shuttles, signoff (DRC) and tapeouts, provide support related to PDK and design tools, customer engagement from early information stage to small volume production. Additionally, the contractor will provide customer support and organize the backend (packaging, testing and delivery) for our predominantly academic customers. The contractor needs to have experience with GlobalFoundries technologies, with focus on 22FDX but also other Globalfoundries technologies such as 45RFE and 8XP. Find more Information in the Tender Specification.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every month (194 awards, most recently May 2025) — by that rhythm the next award was due around June 2025. The last award went to HHS Planer +Architekten AG.n = 194
- 31% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (93 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 91%.n = 93
- 40% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (1,801 awards since 2011, spread over 1,081 companies). 60% went to new names.n = 1,801 awards since 2011
- The median procedure drew 3 bids (1,771 procedures with a bid count); 37% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 1,771
- The award came in at a median 89% of the estimated value (119 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 88%.n = 119
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Caverion Deutschland GmbH · Stuttgart | 26 | 2018–2025 |
| Weigerstorfer GmbH | 20 | 2023 |
| TM Ausbau GmbH | 18 | 2013–2024 |
| Pleitz GmbH | 16 | 2011–2020 |
| Siemens AG | 15 | 2011–2021 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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 387 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 31 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 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 · Architecture & engineering, 404 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 111,169 recorded awards) — mostly from Austria, Switzerland, Poland.
Submission language: German.
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