e-business and e-tendering

The Bavarian State Ministry for Living, Construction and Transport and the company RIB Software SE are represented in the nation-wide committees and task forces created for e-government (the “electronic tendering in public structural engineering” project group of the Conference of Construction Ministers, the xVergabe (tendering) project group and the xBekanntmachung (publication) project group) Their shared goal: The tendering platform, “vergabe.bayern”, is to be integrated long-term in the German and European development of e-government and always kept up-to-date; experiences should be shared across borders. The goal of the Bavarian State Building Authority is to link EDV applications currently in use and those of the future and – as far as possible through open interfaces – to link them to the “vergabe.bayern” tendering platform.

Building Management Schleswig-Holstein AöR (GMSH), as a central service provider in the state for construction, administration and procurement, went live in 2011 on a state and federal level with its electronic tendering platform by RIB Software SE. In September 2010, the Stuttgart-based technology company RIB was awarded GMSH’s contract, after a tendering process and extensive evaluation, to create the e-tendering platform. The platform was brought onto the market by GMSH according to plan on September 28, 2011. With the assumption of live operations by Schleswig-Holstein, now three German states carry out tendering processes on the RIB platform.