Planning Intelligence How to turn a lead into a phone call
A TED notice names the public buyer and, on almost every German notice, its own telephone number — so the call is usually one step, not a search. Here is how to use it.
The registers that apply here
Germany publishes no national building-permit register - the sixteen Länder each run their own, and none publishes in bulk. What Germany DOES publish, daily, is every public construction contract it puts out to tender, through the EU's own official journal. That inverts the usual problem: instead of a permit that names nobody, the notice names the contracting authority on every record, and most carry the authority's own office telephone or mailbox; the offer page gives today's measured share. The gap is the opposite one - these are public buyers, not private developers - so the reader is a contractor who wants to bid, or a supplier who wants the firm that just won.
- Bundesarchitektenkammer — the federal chamber of architects, and through it the sixteen state chambers that each hold the searchable roll - a named architect resolves to a practice and an address. Engineers are listed by the federal chamber of engineers at bingk.de
- Unternehmensregister — the registered company behind a bidder or a winning contractor - its legal form, seat and filings, free and without an account
- TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) — the notice itself in German: the works, the contracting authority, its e-mail and telephone, and the date bids close
A few rules
- Contacting a company or a professional about their work is normal business practice.
- We never publish private individuals. A notice is published by a public body. The named officials on it are not stored at all — only the body’s own contact point. See Privacy.
- If someone asks not to be contacted again, stop immediately and permanently.
- Never suggest you are connected to the buyer or to TED. You are not, and neither are we.
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Those contract notices open in full: what is being bought, which authority is buying it, and the business contact where we hold one.
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