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DBS Digital Food and Gift Vouchers

DBS Digitale Verpflegungs- und Geschenkgutscheine — original title

ATAustria · Wien

Dynamic purchasing system. Suppliers can join at any time; the date shown is the end of the system, not a submission deadline. Individual contracts are later awarded among admitted participants only.

Your path to submission

Deadline: 20 November at 11:00 — 19 days left.
The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
Offer and evidence in: German.
Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.

Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The aim of this procurement procedure is to set up and operate a dynamic purchasing system (short: DBS) in accordance with § 31(8) in conjunction with 160 et seq. BVergG 2018, with an unlimited number of entrepreneurs per lot via the provision of food and gift vouchers for employees in digital form throughout Austria. · The objective of this procurement procedure in Lot 1 is to set up and operate a dynamic purchasing system (short: DBS) in accordance with § 31(8) in conjunction with 160 et seq. BVergG 2018 with an unlimited number of entrepreneurs via the provision of catering vouchers for employees in digital form throughout Austria. · The objective of this procurement procedure in Lot 2 is to set up and operate a dynamic purchasing system (short: DBS) in accordance with § 31(8) in conjunction with 160 et seq. BVergG 2018 with an unlimited number of entrepreneurs on the provision of gift vouchers for employees in digital form throughout Austria.

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

Contract

BuyerAuftraggeber sind die Republik Österreich (Bund), die Bundesbeschaffung GmbH sowie alle weiteren Auftraggeber gemäß der den Ausschreibungsunterlagen beiliegenden Kundenliste, in der Einrichtungsphase dieses DBS alle vertreten durch die Bundesbeschaffung GmbH.

TypeServices

Estimated value€211,958,357

Published21 Oct 2026

ProcedureRestricted procedure

2 lotsReserved for SMEs

Type of service

66 · Financial & insurance services30 · Office & computing machinery

CPV 66000000 · 30199770 · 30199750 · 30162000

Clement

In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (92 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.

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.

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

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]

Websitewww.bbg.gv.at

Deadline — Friday 20 November at 11:00

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 92 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 30 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 31 (median of 488 procedures). A normal window for this market.

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Foreign bidders

In Austria, 4,851 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 25,656 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, Italy, 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.

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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