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Licenses F5 BIG-IP VE Local Traffic Manager

Lizenzen F5 BIG-IP VE Local Traffic Manager — original title

DEGermany · BonnBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 3 November at 12:00 — 2 days left.
  2. You submit on evergabe.NRW — 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. 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 subject of the tender is the award of the successor solution for the licenses F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

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

Contract

BuyerRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn →
TypeSupplies
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published9 Oct 2026
ProcedureÖffentliche Ausschreibung

Type of service

48 · Software & IT systems
CPV 48218000
Clement
In comparable contracts in this sector nationwide (15,901 with a known bid count), usually only a single offer 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.

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
STOE & Cie GmbH22026
FEI Deutschland GmbH22026
Fair4you Gesellschaft für Messemanagement mbH · Gstadt a. Chiemsee12009
Xdemo Gesellschaft für Handel und Service von EDV-Systemen mbH · Sindelfingen12006
Hedelius Maschinenfabrik GmbH · Meppen12016
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

Contracting authority contact

Email[email protected]
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Deadline — Tuesday 3 November at 12:00

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 15,901 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 25 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 32 (median of 20,496 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

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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.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Guide: how to apply on cosinex Vergabemarktplatz / DTVP → Registration, signature, fees — from the operator's bidder manual.

Read the full notice — Original + documents
Goes directly to this tender on evergabe.NRW. The full specification and all annexes are there.
Put together the evidence
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via evergabe.NRW before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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