News

On 23. and 24.06.2020 the Vergabe-Symposium 2020 will take place in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum. The symposium forms a network of experienced public procurement practitioners and renowned speakers and is primarily aimed at participants from the public sector, but also at start-ups, consultancies and law firms working in the field of public procurement.

Due to the orderly contractual expiration of an agreement with d-NRW AöR, the former d-NRW Betriebs-GmbH & Co. KG renamed as GovTech Services by end of 2019, beginning of 2020 respectively. Thus, the GovTech group is responding to various needs for support and services in the field of digitalisation public authorities‘ processes and the foreseeable upheavals concerning the technical and operational landscape all over Germany – a trend that is already perceptible and will still grow within the next years

In the future invoices must be transmitted electronically, i.e. in machine-readable manner, as XML files to contracting authorities. The federal state and local governments will be obliged to accept these invoice formats. The new standard "XRechnung" developed for this purpose poses new challenges for small and medium-sized companies ("SME") as well as for a large number of public authorities. A new and free service of cosinex - xrechnung.io - is intended to help both contractors and clients.

cosinex GmbH was again honoured by the consulting firm Deloitte as one of the fastest growing IT companies in Germany.

Winner of the WSA Germany 2018 and thus also nominated for the World Summit Award 2018 in the category "Government & Citizen Engagement" is the solution for online security checks (OSiP) developed by cosinex and publicplan.

After being awarded the Sharing & Reuse Award by the EU Commission last year, the OSiP (Online Security Review) project, developed with the participation of cosinex, has again been awarded a prestigious prize at federal level in the "Best Cooperation Project 2018" category.

After being awarded the Sharing & Reuse Award by the EU Commission last year, the OSiP (Online Security Review) project, developed with the participation of cosinex, has again been awarded a prestigious prize at federal level in the "Best Cooperation Project 2018" category.

Since the reform of EU public procurement law, the NUTS code must be used to geocode all successful tenderers in the publications of contracts from tenders.

Almost 20 years of experience in procurement law and public procurement, several thousand agencies that announce tenders and procure goods and services, which now work with cosinex solutions, numerous consulting projects in the field of public procurement.

In 2017, cosinex got the contract for a consulting project by the EU Commission to revise the CPV Code. The CPV classification standard represents a common vocabulary into which public authorities have to group announcements within the framework of tenders

cosinex GmbH is well known as one of the leading providers of software solutions in the field of public electronic procurement. In addition, cosinex and its subsidiaries have been able to successfully implement a large number of sophisticated eGovernment projects in recent years and to evolve into a dynamic group of companies in the area of digitisation of administration and eGovernment.

A strategic partnership comprising cosinex, publicplan and BMS Consulting has joined forces to form a bidding consortium. This partnership combines consulting and development expertise in order to provide sophisticated and modern e-government solutions based on various web technologies and programming languages.

Against the background of the September 11 attacks in 2001 the Aviation Security Act was enacted. Therefore specific groups of persons need to be security checked before getting access to sensible areas such as airports.

publicplan GmbH in cooperation with 1xINTERNET GmbH and Reinblau eG has won the Splash Awards 2017 at the category “Engagement” for the Drupal 8 distribution „deGov“. This category honors commitment for the Drupal community in general.

The Alliance for Cyber Security is an initiative of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). It was founded in cooperation with the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications, and New Media (BITKOM).

The EU Commission invited cosinex to join their consulting team for a planned (autumn 2017) revision of the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) code.

The German Procurement Portal has managed to rise quickly to the top e-procurement portal for all types of public contracting in Germany. Just in the last 12 months, more than 150 sites have switched over to this cloud service.

In the past week, publicplan GmbH and partners presented the first Drupal 8-based content management system for public administration on “User Day” in Düsseldorf.

MACH and cosinex combine their expertise to support the public sector in e-procurement. Through the collaboration of one of the largest providers of ERP solutions for the public sector in Germany and one of the technical leaders in the market for e-procurement, there should be solutions to fit all customers.

IHK. Three letters that everyone recognizes: They stand for the IT service provider of the 79 chambers of industry and commerce in Germany. As the largest organizational chamber, they represent the German vocational standard.

cosinex was one of the first providers in Germany to offer an interface to the official EU journal to increase awareness of available public bids.

With almost 8 million inhabitants, Lower Saxony is the most populous federal state in Germany and is the second largest by land area. Lower Saxony recognized their need for cosinex's expertise.

In a recent survey about e-government computing, publicplan GmbH was chosen as one of the 15 most renowned IT consultancy companies in the field of e-government.

A few days ago, Cologne was connected to the d-NRW company’s reporting registry. Now reports from the so-called “power-users”can be collected electronically, gathering data about the citizens of Cologne. With this connection, 75% of the residents in North Rhine-Westphalia can be polled.

publicplan is a company of the cosinex Group and specializes in individual development in the area of e-government for public sector institutions as well as the arts and other creative industries.

In the past months, the operating concept “Software as a Service” (SaaS) has been customized in the area of public e-procurement by cosinex.

Potsdam has been using the Brandenburg State Administration Portal since the company began six years ago. Today, more than 30,000 companies have been using the paperless portal to place their public bids reaching 500 country and municipalities, noted the Ministry of the Interior and Economy in Potsdam.

With the new location on Berliner Friedrichstrasse, The German Public Procurement Portal (DTVP) begins a Germany-wide roadshow from Berlin on September 2.

With regard to the area of e-allocation and e-procurement, easy integration into an existing system is important for many of our customers, especially regarding technical infrastructures and, ERP systems such as SAP.

Bundesanzeiger Verlag and cosinex form joint venture The Bundesanzeiger Verlag, known and established for its activities in the publishing of procurement law amongst others, and cosinex, a pioneer in e-procurement software, have set up a joint venture: the Deutsche Vergabeportal. The goal is to create a central point of contact for transparent public procurement in Germany.

E-government specialist cosinex has again been included in this year’s ranking of the international accounting firm Deloitte as one of the fastest growing technology companies.

After the successful participation in the national Fast 50 Awards in Germany cosinex now also belongs to the Fast 500 in the Europe, Middle East, Africa region (also called EMEA).