Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2025-08-19
Buyer: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
Country: DE
Region: DE252
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72200000 | 73200000
Submission deadline: 2025-09-16
Award criteria: quality, price

Technical requirements: The departments for self-powered radio systems and radio communication systems of Fraunhofer IIS are looking for a partner or contractor who can demonstrate outstanding expertise (see requirements III.) in the following communications and embedded software engineering areas and who is willing to provide commissioned tasks under the terms of the attached framework contract in the following software development and implementation areas
Jahresumsatz der letzten 3 Geschäftsjahre als Eigenerklärung
(1) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 1 of the ARC, the candidate/bidder must give notice of any infringements of the contract within 10 days of becoming aware of them.
(2) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 2 of the ARC, violations of procurement regulations which are identifiable on the basis of the notice shall be notified to the contracting authority no later than the expiry of the period for submission of applications or bids specified in the notice.
(3) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 3 of the ARC, violations of procurement regulations which are only apparent in the award documents must be notified to the contracting authority no later than the expiry of the deadline for submitting applications or bids.
(4) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 4 of the ARC, an application for review of a contract award must be filed with the Public Procurement Tribunal within 15 calendar days of the contracting authority's notification that it does not intend to remedy a complaint.
The departments for self-powered radio systems and radio communication systems of Fraunhofer IIS are looking for a partner or contractor who can demonstrate outstanding expertise (see requirements III.) in the following communications and embedded software engineering areas and who is willing to provide commissioned tasks under the terms of the attached framework contract in the following software development and implementation areas:

•	Software development and implementation for embedded IOT Devices including sensor data analysis and communication
•	Ressource efficient implementation
•	Optimizations for low power, limited processing power or low memory footprint
•	Signal processing for sensor applications including embedded artificial intelligence
•	Porting to new hardware platforms and chipsets from commercial chipset manufacturers including RISC-V architectures
•	Analysis and adaptations of existing firmware to different RTOS approaches including Zephyr

•	Software development and implementation of communication technologies on software defined radio platforms for IOT solutions
•	Implementation on existing platforms and adaptions to different, new hardware platforms
•	Specific implementations for Satellite applications
•	Implementations for mioty and combination of mioty with other communications protocols (multi-standard architecture)

•	Software development and implementation of algorithm for mioty localization in embedded IoT Device and SDR platform

Eligibility requirements: Jahresumsatz der letzten 3 Geschäftsjahre als Eigenerklärung
Contractor profile
Assessment process
(1) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 1 of the ARC, the candidate/bidder must give notice of any infringements of the contract within 10 days of becoming aware of them.
(2) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 2 of the ARC, violations of procurement regulations which are identifiable on the basis of the notice shall be notified to the contracting authority no later than the expiry of the period for submission of applications or bids specified in the notice.
(3) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 3 of the ARC, violations of procurement regulations which are only apparent in the award documents must be notified to the contracting authority no later than the expiry of the deadline for submitting applications or bids.
(4) Pursuant to Section 160 (3) No. 4 of the ARC, an application for review of a contract award must be filed with the Public Procurement Tribunal within 15 calendar days of the contracting authority's notification that it does not intend to remedy a complaint.
The departments for self-powered radio systems and radio communication systems of Fraunhofer IIS are looking for a partner or contractor who can demonstrate outstanding expertise (see requirements III.) in the following communications and embedded software engineering areas and who is willing to provide commissioned tasks under the terms of the attached framework contract in the following software development and implementation areas:

•	Software development and implementation for embedded IOT Devices including sensor data analysis and communication
•	Ressource efficient implementation
•	Optimizations for low power, limited processing power or low memory footprint
•	Signal processing for sensor applications including embedded artificial intelligence
•	Porting to new hardware platforms and chipsets from commercial chipset manufacturers including RISC-V architectures
•	Analysis and adaptations of existing firmware to different RTOS approaches including Zephyr

•	Software development and implementation of communication technologies on software defined radio platforms for IOT solutions
•	Implementation on existing platforms and adaptions to different, new hardware platforms
•	Specific implementations for Satellite applications
•	Implementations for mioty and combination of mioty with other communications protocols (multi-standard architecture)

•	Software development and implementation of algorithm for mioty localization in embedded IoT Device and SDR platform
optional extension of further two years