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Public clients are often faced with the challenge of designing public tenders that meet demand and are in line with the market. Public procurement law offers the possibility of market exploration – a flexible instrument for consultation with the market. This blog post explains the legal framework, objectives, forms and limits of market exploration and dispels common myths.

In public tenders, proposal management encounters what are called ‘thresholds’. In public procurement law, the threshold values define the boundary between EU-wide tenders and national tenders. In 2019 in Germany, for example, the federal ministries opened over 1,200 EU-wide tenders that had a total value of €5 billion. In my blog post, I will give you a glimpse into the world of thresholds, as they were adjusted on 1 January 2022 and will remain valid for two years.