The subject matter of the contract includes the manufacture and delivery of 9 fuel cell articulated buses.

The buses must have the following basic equipment features:

- Low-floor city bus

- Vehicle length: articulated bus approx. 18m

- all-electric drive

- Hydrogen storage with an operating pressure of 350 bar

- Brennstoffzellensystem

- The propulsion energy is provided entirely by recuperation or via the fuel cell. At the depot of the AG there is no possibility to supply the vehicles with electricity over a longer period of time.

- Mindestreichweite 350 km

- Charging the battery via Combo 2 CCS plug

- 3 doors

- video surveillance

- Air conditioning for driver and passenger compartment

- Passenger information

The buses must be delivered and accepted ready for operation by 31.07.2025 at the latest (if the contract is awarded by 31.03.2024).

Further information can be found in the tender documents. The AG reserves the right to make changes to the tender documents.

1. Participation competition

In the upstream participation competition, according to Point III.1 the suitability of the applicants with regard to their economic and financial capacity as well as the technical and professional capacity and reliability are checked on the basis of the requests to participate as well as documents, declarations and evidence The competition concludes with a review of the applicants' suitability.

2. Invitation to tender

All applicants who are formally and materially suitable are invited to submit an initial (indicative) offer. There is no restriction on the number of applicants who are invited to submit tenders. The applicants who were not considered will be informed of the reasons for the rejection of their application to participate in the negotiation process.

3. Initial offer (phase 1)

The initial offer must be drawn up, calculated and submitted in accordance with the invitation to submit a bid and the other tender documents. With the first offer, applicants can register a need for negotiation with regard to the technical and commercial content of the specification sheet and thereby communicate the financial effects of an adjustment of the corresponding specification on their offer. On the basis of the first offers, the AG will negotiate with the bidders who have submitted an offer that complies with the tender. The aim of the negotiations is to specify the technical implementation and the contractual conditions. The client determines the subject of the negotiation and includes the negotiation proposals of the applicants as far as they are sensible from his point of view.

4. Binding offer (phase 2)

After all negotiations have been concluded, the AG will adapt the tender documents based on its findings from the discussions and request the bidders to submit a binding offer on the basis of these adapted tender documents. This offer may only deviate from the first offer insofar as this is specified or permitted by changes in the tender documents.

The binding offers will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria made known in the tender documents. The bidder who has submitted the most economical offer on this basis will be awarded the contract.

The AG reserves the right to conduct further rounds of negotiations.