German Public Tenders (Ausschreibungen) – Finder, Daily Watch & Eligibility Check

Stop scrolling through tender portals. Get every open German public tender in your field — with deadline, value and an honest answer to the only question that matters for a small company: “Can we actually bid on this?”

🇩🇪 Kurz auf Deutsch: Findet offene öffentliche Ausschreibungen in Deutschland (amtliche EU-Datenbank TED), liest die Bekanntmachung und sagt pro Ausschreibung, ob ein kleines Unternehmen realistisch mitbieten kann (Mindestumsatz, Referenzen, Zertifikate, Versicherung, Personal, Bietergemeinschaft) — mit Begründung. Mit Wächter-Modus kommen jeden Morgen nur die neuen Ausschreibungen, sortiert nach Passung (0–100). Bezahlt wird nur pro gelieferter Ausschreibung. Anbieter: Previsa · KI & Automation, https://previsa.de

What you get in 1 minute

• ✅ Open tenders only (no award notices), Germany only, straight from the official EU source TED
• ✅ Eligibility verdict per tender: likely · unclear · no — always with the reasons
• ✅ Hurdles extracted from the notice: minimum turnover, number of references, ISO 9001 / ISO 27001 / BSI C5 / TISAX, liability insurance, minimum staff, mandatory consortium, security clearance, penalties
• ✅ Daily watch: only tenders you have not seen before (watchId)
• ✅ Relevance score 0–100 for your company profile, with matchReasons
• ✅ Optional 3-sentence AI summary per tender with your own AI key

Who uses it

You are …	Typical setup
IT service provider / software agency	CPV 72000000, keywords Software, Wartung, region DE2
Consultancy / training provider	CPV 79400000, 80500000
Cleaning / facility services	CPV 90910000, 79993000
Construction / trades	CPV 45000000, region = your federal state
Bid manager / lead-gen agency	several watches, one per client (watchId per client)

Quick start: a daily tender alert in 2 minutes

1. Pick your CPV code(s) (e.g. 72000000 = IT services) and optionally a region (DE2 = Bavaria).
2. Fill Your company: keywords (what you offer) and Exclude keywords.
3. Give the watch a name in watchId, e.g. it-bavaria.
4. Click Schedule → daily. Every morning you get only the new tenders, best matches first. Connect Apify's integrations (e-mail, Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier) to have them delivered.

Example input:

{
  "cpvCodes": ["72000000"],
  "regions": ["DE2"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "checkEligibility": true,
  "watchId": "it-bavaria",
  "profileKeywords": ["Software", "Wartung", "Webseite"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["Hardware-Lieferung"],
  "minRelevance": 30
}

What it costs

You pay only for tenders you receive; your spending limit is always respected.

Event	Price	Example
Tender (structured data)	$0.01	50 tenders ≈ $0.50
Tender with eligibility check (notice really read)	$0.03	50 checked tenders ≈ $1.50
AI summary (only with your own AI key)	$0.005	50 summaries ≈ $0.25

A typical daily watch returns 0–10 new tenders → a few cents per day.

Part of a chain

1. Early signal: German Council Radar – city councils discussing projects, often before a tender.
2. Tender: this tool.
3. Funding: German Funding Radar – grants, loans and EU calls checked against your profile.

FAQ

Is this legal advice? No. The verdict is a fast first filter. unclear means: read the tender documents yourself.

Why are some tenders unclear? Many buyers put the real requirements into separate documents. The actor only says likely or no when the notice itself gives clear evidence.

Does it work outside Germany? Not yet — buyer country is fixed to Germany and the hurdle check reads German notices.

What about personal data? Contact persons, e-mails and phone numbers are never requested and are removed from all text fields.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
cpvCodes	["72000000"]	8-digit CPV codes. Empty = all sectors.
keywords	["Software", "Wartung"]	Optional, German works best.
regions	["DE2"]	Optional NUTS codes (DE2 = Bavaria, DE26 = Lower Franconia).
daysBack	7	1–30 days.
maxResults	50	Up to 300.
checkEligibility	true	Reads the notice PDF.
smallBiddersOnly	false	Hides tenders with hard blockers.

Output (one row per tender)

title, buyerName, buyerCity, placeOfPerformance, cpvCodes, deadline, estimatedValueEur, selectionCriteria, hurdles, smallBidderFit, blockers, openQuestions, url, pdfUrl, source.

{
  "title": "Confidential Computing-fähige Server",
  "buyerName": "Fraunhofer-Institut AISEC",
  "deadline": "2026-10-26",
  "smallBidderFit": "unclear",
  "blockers": [],
  "openQuestions": ["Financial ratio required — check the documents"],
  "url": "https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/667493-2026"
}

Pricing (pay per event)

• tender — one tender without eligibility check
• ai-summary — only if you add your own AI key and a summary was created
• tender-checked — one tender with eligibility check (only charged when the notice PDF was really read; otherwise the row is charged as tender)

You only pay for rows you receive. Your spending limit is always respected.

Good to know

• Only open competitions (no award notices), only Germany (buyer country DEU). The hurdle check understands German notice texts.
• Personal data is kept out as far as possible: contact-person, e-mail, phone and fax fields are never requested from TED. In all text fields, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and "Herr/Frau/Ansprechpartner + name" patterns are removed. Free text written by the buyer can still mention people in other ways — treat the output like the public notice it comes from.
• Not legal advice. The verdict is a quick filter. unclear means: read the tender documents yourself.
• Polite to the source: PDFs are downloaded one at a time; if TED says "too many requests", the actor stops and tells you instead of retrying.

Source and licence

Data: TED – © European Union, reuse under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, editorial content CC BY 4.0. Data was modified (filtered, shortened, analysed). https://ted.europa.eu

Publisher: Previsa · KI & Automation — https://previsa.de/impressum.html