Understanding public procurement
A reference work for everyone who bids for public contracts. Procedure types, deadlines, evidence and industry specifics, each with a reference to the legal basis. Plus our own analyses of official procurement data.
Procurement Acceleration Act (Vergabebeschleunigungsgesetz): what changes for bidders
19 laws, around 110 sections. Self-declarations instead of a flood of evidence, direct awards up to €50,000, payment within 30 days, and an important change to the principle of division into lots. With sections and primary sources.
Procurement procedures
Open and restricted procedures, negotiated procedure, competitive dialogue and the procedures below the thresholds. When each one is permitted and how it works.
Finding tenders
All official sources at a glance, freely accessible, with figures on the actual size of the market.
Searching by CPV code
How the codes are structured, which areas publish the most tenders and how to close two typical gaps in your search.
Filtering and refining your search
Four filter levels that turn hundreds of contract notices a day into a manageable list of results.
When the tender is tailored to someone else
How to recognise it, what procurement law requires and which remedies are available to you before the deadline for tenders expires. With wording for a bidder question and a complaint.
Rejected: what you can still find out now
A ten-day standstill period and an entitlement under Section 62 of the Public Procurement Regulation (VgV) that gives you valuable feedback: the characteristics and advantages of the successful tender. With suggested wording.
Fundamentals
Thresholds, selection criteria and evidence, prequalification, bidding consortium, subcontractors, award criteria, deadlines and review procedures.
Industries
How procurements differ: construction works under the Construction Contract Procedures (VOB/A), supplies and services under VgV and the Sub-threshold Procurement Regulation (UVgO), planning services, IT procurement and the utilities sector.
Updates
What is changing in procurement law: eForms, the procurement law transformation, sustainability and social criteria. With date and legal status.
Market data
Who wins in which industry, how many tenders are typically received, how contract values develop. Analysed from official contract award notices.
Decisions
Important decisions of the public procurement tribunals and higher regional courts, explained in practical terms. When an exclusion was upheld and when it was not.
Topic map
Procurement law is a network, not a table of contents. This map shows how the topics are connected. Click a point to jump to the topic.
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From theory to the specific tender
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