Article: The foundation of a secure partnership
The foundation of a secure partnership
Infrastructure procurement involves an eligibility assessment of suppliers/bidders in certain commodity groups prior to contract award. Such a "PQ-Bahn Prequalification Process" is thus an entry requirement for participating in many of our contract award procedures.
Prequalification is required for certain commodity groups/services
Prequalification is mandatory to be able to participate in the awarding of contracts in the listed services. It must be applied for in advance and must have been successfully completed at the time of submission of the bid/request to participate.
Further information on prequalification can be found in the detailed list of all product groups.
Clear advantages: How you benefit from the prequalification system
- Eligibility checked in advance and only every 2 years independent of specific contract award procedures
- The duration of the contract award procedure is shortened; faster start of services
- Contract awards in commodity groups with prequalification are often exclusively for prequalified supplier pools
- Digital process throughout supported by our Supplier Management Tool SMaRT
- All requirements and documents freely accessible here in advance
How a PQ process works
The prequalification procedure includes 2 stages after registration. After successfully completing these two stages, you will be included in our pool of prequalified suppliers and can immediately participate in the corresponding contract award procedures.
You can find more detailed information on the prequalification procedure, the minimum criteria for the individual commodity groups, the costs and much more in our procedural rules for the procurement infrastructure prequalification system in the download area.
Registration
- Specification of the company data
- Selection of commodity groups/service portfolio
Stage 1 Answering a basic questionnaire regarding:
Stage 2 Answering a commodity group-specific questionnaire regarding:
Supplier pool
- You will benefit from the advantages of being a prequalified supplier
Good to know: Additional information about the prequalification procedure in the infrastructure product area
- Each interested and legally independent company must submit its own application (see section 2 (3) of the procedural rules).
- If several prequalifications are required in infrastructure contracts, companies that do not have all the necessary prequalifications themselves can make use of prequalified subcontractors. An overview of all prequalified companies per product group can be found on the right under "Downloads" *.
- After successful completion of the prequalification procedure, your company will be included in the list of prequalified companies in the infrastructure sector. The current version of the list can be found further down on this page.
* The list published on the above date is non-binding and is for information purposes only. The prequalification team of Deutsche Bahn AG maintains binding lists of prequalified companies that are updated daily. The contents of the list posted here may differ from the contents of the aforementioned daily updated list. No legal claim can be derived from this.
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