June sets the year's high mark
68,623 procurement notices were published in June 2026, more than in any other month this year. Compared with May (55,498) that is a rise of 23.6 percent, and the previous peak month, April (64,601), is beaten by a good 4,000 documents. The year so far shows a clear upward path from January (30,906), with May as the only dip.
July is still in progress: 16,206 notices were on record by 13 July. Whether it catches up with June can be followed in the data explorer, where every week now expands into its individual days.
A fifth of regional volume sits in North Rhine-Westphalia
245,199 documents in the 13 July snapshot can be attributed to a federal state. North Rhine-Westphalia leads with 47,558 notices (19.4 percent), ahead of Bavaria (39,009, 15.9 percent) and Baden-Württemberg (24,831, 10.1 percent). The three largest states combine for a good 45 percent of regionally attributable volume, and the explorer map now shows each state's notice types and strongest topics on click.
Electrical installation tops the topic list
In the four weeks to 14 July, electrical installation was the most tendered topic with 3,027 notices, ahead of architecture (2,119) and road construction (1,884). The construction industry's dominance stands out: six of the eight strongest topics, from windows & doors to structural steel, belong to construction, and the remaining two (architecture, building-services engineering) are its upstream planning disciplines. Watching the public market right now largely means watching construction tenders.
A good third of the market is already awarded
Across the full 70-week window (418,790 documents), 58.8 percent are open tender notices and 36.4 percent are contract awards; prior information notices account for 4.3 percent. Within 2026 the award share is slightly higher at 37.2 percent. For bidders this means a good third of published documents are not open opportunities but market intelligence about who won which contracts: the explorer breaks this down by lifecycle stage and sector.
Methodology and limits
The analysis is based on publicly available procurement notices that Auftrag One collects and normalises automatically. Monthly figures follow the publication date; the topic analysis uses a rolling four-week window ending 14 July 2026. 58.5 percent of the corpus carries a federal-state attribution; missing values are not estimated, and shares always refer to the stated subset. All figures are a historical snapshot of 13/14 July 2026, count documents, not contract values, and are not retroactively replaced by live counters.