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    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

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    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.

    • Details of all commodity groups can be found here: Commodity groups in detail 
    • An overview of all commodity groups for switchgear 16.7 Hz and DC can be found in the download section

    Your benefits from the prequalification system are clear

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    • 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 PQQ 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 process, the minimum criteria for the individual commodity groups, the costs, and much more in our procedural rules for the Infrastructure Procurement prequalification system at our download page.

    Registration

    • Specification of the company data
    • Selection of commodity groups/service portfolio

    Stage 1 Answering a basic questionnaire regarding:

    • Supplier expertise
    • Capability
    • Grounds for exclusion

    Stage 2 Answering a commodity group-specific questionnaire regarding:

    • Specific reference projects

    Supplier pool

    • You will benefit from the advantages of being a prequalified supplier

    Additional, useful information about the prequalification procedure for infrastructure products

    The following questions, documents, and proof are part of the prequalification procedure

    • Any interested and legally independent company must submit its own application (see Section 2 (3) of the procedural rules).
    • If more than one prequalification is required for contract awards for iInfrastructure, companies that do not themselves have all the necessary prequalifications can draw on prequalified subcontractors. overview of all the prequalified companies for each commodity group
    • After successfully completing the prequalification process, your company will be added to the list of companies prequalified for infrastructure products. The current version of the list can be found above.

    *The list uploaded on the specified date is non-binding and for information only. Deutsche Bahn AG maintains binding up-to-date registers of prequalified companies. The contents of the list uploaded here may differ from the contents of the above-mentioned up-to-date register. No legal claims can be derived from this.

    To make it faster and easier for medium-sized construction companies in particular to provide construction services for Deutsche Bahn in the difficult market situation, DB Infrastructure Procurement has now reached an agreement with the construction industry in cooperation with the Zentralverband Deutsches Baugewerbe (ZDB, Central Association of the German Construction Industry). From April 1, construction companies will be able to act as suppliers to Deutsche Bahn simply by providing proof of the standard industry qualification (PQ-VOB). This applies to all areas outside of rail construction in which formal prequalification (PQ-Bahn) is not required.

    For further information, please refer to the documents "Information zur Vereinbarung der Eignungsprüfung" (Information on the agreement for the eligibility assessment) and "Verbändeschreiben: Vereinfachung der Eignungsprüfung " (Association letter: Simplification of the eligibility assessment) on the right-hand side in the download area.