For software companies, system houses and IT consultants. validait finds suitable tenders across 54 procurement portals and reviews each one against your profile.
validait searches 54 procurement portals every day, from the EU's Official Journal and the German public procurement data service (Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf) to the platforms of federal states and cities, and filters the results against your company profile. New procedures can arrive in your inbox every morning.
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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 5,874 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 public sector procures IT using standardised contract templates, the Supplementary Terms and Conditions for the Procurement of IT Services (EVB-IT). Their use is mandatory for federal authorities, and many federal states and municipalities follow suit. There are separate templates for services, the provision of standard software, maintenance, purchase, servicing, cloud, development, systems and framework agreements.
The decisive point for you: these terms are not open to negotiation. Anyone who encloses their own general terms and conditions or deletes clauses risks exclusion for altering the tender documents. Check the liability and warranty provisions before submitting your bid, not afterwards.
Since July 2026, Section 58 of the Public Procurement Regulation (VgV) explicitly names aspects of digital sovereignty as a permissible award criterion. For providers with European hosting, open standards or open source software, this is a noticeable improvement in their starting position. If you have strengths in this area, you should highlight them explicitly in your bid rather than treating them as a matter of course.
A large share of public IT procurement does not run through individual tenders but through framework agreements lasting several years, from which orders are then called off. If you are not part of them, you never even see these contracts. The term is usually no more than four years, and since July 2026 up to eight years for social and other specific services.
In IT, contracting authorities pay particular attention to suitable certifications, especially ISO 27001, complete information on subcontractors, refraining from your own contract terms and references from the public sector where these are required.
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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