For building cleaning, caretaking services, grounds maintenance and technical building management. validait finds suitable tenders and reviews wage compliance, performance ratios and evidence.
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Market volume and trends, sub-markets, federal states, contracting authorities and procedures, intensity of competition, leading contractors, contract values, European comparison and concrete recommendations. Based on 3,749 tenders from the EU Official Journal.
Download the study (German)Source: EU Official Journal (TED), own analysis, October 2025 to September 2026, place of performance Germany. Methodology in the study.
The Federal Collective Wage Compliance Act (Bundestariftreuegesetz) has applied since 1 May 2026 to federal contracts with an estimated contract value of €50,000 or more. For staff-intensive services such as cleaning and caretaking, this is the most important change of the year in practice. The obligation explicitly extends to subcontractors and deployed temporary agency workers as well.
Factor the collectively agreed requirements into your pricing before you submit a bid. A bid that falls below them not only triggers a query under Section 60 of the Public Procurement Regulation (VgV) but, in the event of breaches, can also lead to contractual penalties up to and including exclusion. Since July 2026, the provision also states that the contracting authority should reject an abnormally low bid, no longer merely that it may.
For cleaning services, pricing is driven by performance ratios, that is square metres per hour by room type and type of cleaning. These ratios are set out in the tender documents or derive from the room schedule. Check them carefully: a ratio set too ambitiously by the contracting authority means that the tendered service cannot realistically be delivered in the specified time. This is a classic case for a bidder question before the deadline expires.
Facility services are often tendered as a framework agreement over several years and in lots by property or region. For medium-sized providers, division into lots is the way into contracts that would be out of reach as a complete package. So always check whether you can serve individual lots, even if the overall volume seems too large.
A complete wage compliance declaration, full details of the staff deployed, the required evidence of quality or environmental management and comparable references, so for a hospital, hospital cleaning rather than office cleaning.
Source: EU Official Journal (TED), own analysis, as of 10/2026. Procedures below the EU thresholds are published nationally and come on top.
For companies of any size that take part in public tenders regularly or want to start doing so. The criteria catalogue adapts to your profile, and you start with three free analyses per week.
From 54 connected procurement portals: the EU's Official Journal (TED), the German public procurement data service (Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf) with procedures below the EU thresholds, national platforms in five further countries and 44 portals of federal states, cities and public companies. You will find the full overview under Portal search. More on this under Finding tenders.
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