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Service concession Gastgewerbebetrieb Thalersee

Dienstleistungskonzession Gastgewerbebetrieb Thalersee — original title

ATAustria · HQ Graz

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline for requests to participate: 25 November at 12:00 — 10 days left. Two-stage procedure: by this deadline you submit a request to participate (proof of eligibility). Only shortlisted firms are then invited to submit a tender.
  2. The submission point is stated in the notice (link on this page).
  3. Offer and evidence in: German.
  4. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
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What the buyer is looking for

All-year local recreation offers are intended to ensure a better living and quality of life for the population of Graz around the Plabutsch. In June 2022, the redesign of the ‘Thalersee’ was completed and the new hospitality business, with eight guest rooms with lake views and event location, including boat and ice skating rentals, was opened. The aim of the invitation to tender is therefore to conclude an existing contract for the hospitality business including boat and ice skate rental (as well as management of the parking lot) on Lake Thalersee.The client is looking for a competent and ambitious entrepreneur who implements the client’s ideas with regard to the keywords ‘gentle’, ‘gentle’ and ‘sustainable’.For more information, please refer to the invitation to tender document.

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

Contract

BuyerFreizeit Graz
TypeServices
Estimated value€1,900,000
Published6 Nov 2026
ProcedureNegotiated procedure with prior publication

Type of service

55 · Hotel & restaurant services
CPV 55000000
Clement
In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (142 with a known bid count), usually only 2 offers came in — a solid bid has real chances.
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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.

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

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Deadline — Wednesday 25 November at 12:00
Deadline for requests to participate

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

This procedure allows 20 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 30 (median of 468 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In Austria · Hotel & restaurant services, 11 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 296 recorded awards).

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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