Public tenders in
Austria
Austria has a sophisticated public procurement market closely aligned with Germany's legal traditions, making it a natural add-on market for any German-language product. The market is centralised around the federal BBG (Bundesbeschaffung GmbH) for central government purchasing and the ANKÖ platform for tender publication. The 2025 reform raising the direct award threshold to €143,000 (one of the EU's highest) is a notable feature that affects the data landscape. Austria shares DACH cultural and business norms with Germany and Switzerland.
Legal framework
Bundesvergabegesetz 2018 (BVergG)
e-procurement
high
Portal type
Mixed — federal BBG for central + ANKÖ for broader market; regional portals exist
Sources
Every authoritative portal for Austria — under one search
We continuously ingest official publications and deduplicate cross-posted notices so your team sees each opportunity exactly once.
Scope: National
Main procurement publication platform
Scope: Publication
Official publication
Scope: Central
Federal central purchasing agency
Scope: Multi-buyer
E-procurement SaaS
Scope: EU-wide above threshold
Austrian above-threshold notices
What's out there right now
Representative Austria tenders
A snapshot of the types of opportunities Tendios indexes across Austria. Create a free account to see the live feed, filtered to your company profile.
- AT·Austria Ministry
Maintenance services — Austria national authority
Budget ·€1MDeadline · 9 Jun - AT·Regional Council of Austria
IT consulting — cloud migration
Budget ·€680KDeadline · 20 Jun - AT·Municipality
Construction works — public school retrofit
Budget ·€2MDeadline · 6 Jun - AT·Public Hospital
Medical equipment procurement
Budget ·€450KDeadline · 15 Jun - AT·Austria Public Agency
Legal advisory services framework
Budget ·€320KDeadline · 1 Jun - AT·University
Catering services, 3-year contract
Budget ·€2MDeadline · 28 Jun
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See real-time Austria resultsThe problem
Procurement in Austria is harder than it should be
Every EU market has its own quirks. Here's what makes Austria tricky — and why generic procurement tools fall short.
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ery high Direktvergabe threshold**: €143,000 — many contracts fly under the radar compared to Spain
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erhandlungsverfahren ohne Bekanntmachung**: negotiated procedure without publication for specific cases — limits discoverability
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ektorenauftrag**: utilities procurement under BVergG Sektoren — separate rules
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ietergemeinschaft** (consortium bidding): very common in Austria for large contracts — data model should support multi-entity bids
How Tendios helps in Austria
Built for Austria, connected to the rest of the EU
Local depth, cross-border reach. Tendios turns Austria's fragmented public data into one clean, AI-searchable workspace.
Once Tendios has a German product, Austria coverage is near-zero marginal cost
Austrian market has no AI-native tender intelligence leader
Cross-border: Austrian companies operating in Spain/EU are natural targets
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Local law aware
Our data model preserves Austria's procedure types, thresholds, and document taxonomies — not a lowest-common-denominator view.
Market intelligence
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Top procurement categories in Austria
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FAQ
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