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Cleaning of biotons

Reinigung von Biotonnen — original title

DEGermany · Bocholt

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 26 November at 09:00 — 25 days left.
  2. 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.
  3. Offer and evidence in: German.
  4. Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The disposal and service company of the city of Bocholt (ESB) has concluded contracts with waste owners in Bocholt on a private law basis for the cleaning of currently a total of approximately 3,527 biowaste containers, of which tariff 1 (= 19 cleanings per year) for currently 806 containers and tariff 2 (= 8 cleanings per year) for 2,721 containers. In total, there are currently around 37,082 cleanings to be carried out per year on a total of 76 days (usually Monday to Thursday; different in holiday weeks).

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€31,000
Published27 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Contract period1 Jan 2027 → 31 Dec 2028
Place of performanceBocholt

Type of service

90 · Cleaning, environment & waste
CPV 90913000 · 90500000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 5 months (31 awards, most recently September 2026) — the next award is due around February 2027 by that rhythm. The last award went to Stölting GmbH, Reinigung und Service.n = 31
  • 43% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (440 awards since 2018, spread over 253 companies). 57% went to new names.n = 440 awards since 2018
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (436 procedures with a bid count); 33% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 4 bids.n = 436
  • The award came in at a median 83% of the estimated value (199 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 81%.n = 199
  • 85% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (153 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 74%.n = 153

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.

Clement
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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.

Eligibility analysis from the tender documents

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

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.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
Elektro Ehringfeld GmbH · Isselburg102019–2026
Daimler Truck AG72020–2026
Schlingmann GmbH & Co. KG62023–2026
MAN Truck & Bus Deutschland GmbH62023–2026
BOLLE Mobile Raumsysteme GmbH52022–2025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

7
2019
4
2020
5
2021
4
2022
10
2023
11
2024
23
2025
20
2026
84 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Thursday 26 November at 09:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually 5 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 37 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 · Cleaning, environment & waste, 45 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 43,631 recorded awards) — mostly from Netherlands, Austria, Belgium.

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
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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
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