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With planning services the decision usually falls before the bid: in the call for competition, through references and the application form. If you only see the notice after two weeks, you can hardly fill in the application form properly. procuris shows VgV procedures (the German regulation for awards above the EU thresholds), design competitions and services under the HOAI (the German fee scale for architects and engineers) from TED and more than 90 German procurement portals in one search, with deadline and eligibility requirements summarised up front.

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Where it goes wrong in practice

Where Engineering and planning firms lose time and contracts in procurement

The call for competition decides, not the bid

In VgV procedures the field of applicants is shortlisted through references, turnover, staff and the application form. If you join late, you apply with whatever is at hand instead of the reference that fits.

Research happens on the side

Small and mid-sized firms have no bid management role. Someone does the portal search between two projects, and in busy weeks that is exactly what gets dropped.

The real contract volume is not in the title

The scope of services, the HOAI work stages and phased commissioning decide what actually gets commissioned. That is in the tender documents, not in the notice.

CPV 71 is a very large class

Structural engineering, transport planning, environmental reports, site supervision and urban planning share the same main group. Keyword filters do not separate them cleanly.

What procuris changes

One process from notice to submission

Procedures on the day they are published

A saved search describes your range of services and your region once. After that you get an email as soon as a matching procedure appears, not on your next portal visit.

Eligibility and deadline visible before you apply

The AI summary lists the required references, minimum requirements, application deadline and procedure type. You see before putting in the work whether an application is realistic or whether you would need a consortium.

References as a database, not a folder

Project references with work stages, volume and client are stored centrally and can be assigned to a procedure. The application form is built from existing data instead of a search through the archive.

Deadlines shared by the team, not kept in one head

Application deadline, deadline for bidder questions, submission date and presentation date sit on the procedure, with tasks and owners. Even when the person who found the procedure is out on site.

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Frequently asked questions

In procurement law, planning services count as services. If the estimated contract value reaches or exceeds the EU threshold for supply and service contracts, European procurement law applies, which in Germany means the VgV. Below it, the UVgO or the procurement law of the federal state applies. The European Commission adjusts the thresholds every two years by regulation, so always check against the value currently in force. Note also that similar planning services may have to be added together when the contract value is estimated.
In the negotiated procedure with a call for competition, the standard route for larger planning contracts, the buyer first requests applications and selects a limited number of applicants based on eligibility and selection criteria published in advance. Only those are invited to bid. References, staffing and turnover therefore act as the entry ticket. If you miss the application deadline or apply with an unsuitable reference, you never reach the stage where fee and concept are assessed.
CPV 71 covers architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services and is therefore very broad. Within this group, buyers often choose a general code when the finer classification does not clearly fit. A semantic search therefore also compares the description of works itself: a structural engineering procedure is found even when it was published under a general engineering code. It also helps to combine CPV filters with region and type of buyer instead of relying on the code alone.

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