Viran now covers German public procurement across all three levels at which it happens: the federal administration, the sixteen states, and the municipalities beneath them.
Germany is the largest public procurement market in the EU, and one of the most fragmented. Above the EU thresholds the rules are harmonised and the picture is relatively clear. Below them, each state sets its own procedure, and that is where the great majority of contracts sit by count. A supplier who follows only the federal layer is watching the smallest part of the market by volume of opportunities.
Sector buyers add another dimension. Large infrastructure and transport operators run their own purchasing routes under the utilities regime rather than the general one, with different thresholds and different timelines.
This is why "we cover Germany" is a claim worth interrogating. Covering the federal layer is straightforward. Covering the municipal layer across sixteen states with divergent below-threshold rules is the part that takes work, and it is the part that decides whether a mid-sized supplier sees anything it can realistically win.
For a foreign supplier the barrier has rarely been eligibility. The single market applies. The barrier is that the contract is published somewhere the company was never looking, in a procedure it did not know applied to it.
German contracts at every level now arrive in the same pipeline as domestic and EU tenders, assessed on the same terms as everything else.
