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Purchase of four rack servers for the VDI environment of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.
Kauf von vier Rack-Servern für die VDI-Umgebung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 6 November at 10:00 — 5 days left.
- The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
- 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
Purchase of four identical 19-inch rack servers including remote management licenses and 36-month manufacturer warranty and support. The subject of the service is the delivery of the fully assembled, factory-tested servers · Purchase of four identical 19-inch rack servers including licenses for remote management as well as manufacturer warranty and support. The servers are used as hosts for the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in the client's existing virtualization environment (VMware vSphere/ESXi). All four servers must be configured identically. The scope of services includes the delivery of the fully assembled, factory-tested servers to the Mittelstraße 43 site in Bonn (section 6). Installation in the server rack, commissioning as well as installation and configuration of the hypervisor are carried out by the client. The delivery of all four servers should take place as soon as…
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… possible after the award of the contract - but at the latest by 18.12.2026. Offers with a later delivery date will be excluded. (see A02)
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 40% of the bids received came from other countries (16 procedures with a bid mix) — all bidders, not just the winners. Sector: 6%.n = 16
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (41 procedures with a bid count); 22% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 1 bid.n = 41
- 24% of awards went to companies from abroad (41 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 2%.n = 41
- 94% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (16 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 51%.n = 16
- 53% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (41 awards since 2017, spread over 20 companies). 47% went to new names.n = 41 awards since 2017
From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 25/10/2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advisers for International Programs S.L. · Malaga | 5 | 2025 |
| Debla Cursos de Español | 4 | 2025 |
| Deutsche Post AG · Berlin | 3 | 2017–2018 |
| ITB Consulting GmbH · Bonn | 3 | 2009–2020 |
| Landesspracheninstitut Bochum · Bochum | 3 | 2025 |
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 14 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,071 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.
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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