Your solution for municipalities.
Developed once. Ordered many times.
We bring municipalities with the same demand together and develop the shared solution with them and with you.
What municipalities procure every year.
Each on its own, tendered anew every time.
Primary school. 150 to 200 new builds a year.
Water pipe. Around 12,000 sections a year.
Social housing. Around 600 projects a year.
Public buildings. Around 3,700 retrofits a year.
Wind farm. Around 100 projects a year.
Heat network. Around 165 projects a year.
Sewage sludge. Around 60 plants a year.
Senior housing. Around 330 projects a year.
City bus. Around 100 procurements a year.
Critical infrastructure. Around 5,400 projects a year.
Solutions exist. What is missing is the route to scale.
Municipalities have enormous demand, and good solutions have long existed. Still, they barely arrive, because every municipality plans, tenders and finances on its own.
Convincing every municipality one by one.
Every project starts with new conversations, new requirements, new decision-makers. Every time with the risk of ending up empty-handed.
Every tender is different.
Specifications rarely match finished solutions. You rebuild your solution for every municipality instead of developing it once for all.
The financing is missing.
Grants, private capital and municipal budgets do not come together. Many projects never start because the money is missing.
Together instead of one by one.
Municipalities with the same project describe together what they need. You bring your solution in and align it to that. The result is an open standard under which the municipalities tender jointly.
With municipalities that have real demand
You sit at the table with municipalities that have confirmed their project. They come for the shared solution, not for a presentation. Nobody has to be convinced.
One tender instead of a hundred
The municipalities tender jointly, under the standard you described together. You bid once and reach all of them.
One seat per area
Every solution consists of several areas, such as building, technology and operation. One provider per area sits at the table. You meet partners, not just competitors.
Who this is for.
For start-ups and companies that see their solution as part of a whole. Whether established in the market or at an early stage.
Start-ups
Prototype or first references: you want to know whether municipalities really need your solution, and proof of it that counts in your next round. Here you get both from municipalities that have the problem right now.
Companies
You have a proven solution or a new one that needs to reach the market. You want to deploy it in many municipalities without convincing each one, and you are ready to complement providers from other areas.
You are in good company.
Providers, municipalities and capital that back the approach.
How you join.
Three steps. The first costs nothing, and after each one you decide whether to go on.
- 1
Tell us what you deliver · 2 minutes, free
You tell us your company and the project your solution fits. You learn when municipalities join, and you are the first to know when the standards workshop has a date. Until then no contract, no costs. - 2
Standards workshop · with municipalities and partners
Beforehand we clarify in a conversation where your solution sits in the standard, which partners complement it and what taking part costs. In the workshop you then sit with municipalities that need your solution and with providers that complement you. Together you define what the solution must do. - 3
One framework agreement, many municipalities · tender under the standard
The municipalities jointly tender a framework agreement under the standard. You bid once and deliver to many municipalities, without having to win each one on its own.
What municipalities procure every year.
Schools come first.
Pooling demand
School construction and renovation
150 to 200 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Renewing drinking water networks
around 12,000 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Social housing in series
around 600 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Energy retrofit of public buildings
around 3,700 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Repowering municipal wind farms
around 100 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Local heating network
around 165 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Sewage sludge recovery
around 60 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Assisted living for older people
around 330 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Electric bus fleets
around 100 a year in Germany.
Pooling demand
Protecting critical infrastructure
around 5,400 a year in Germany.
Your solution fits none of these?
Tell us, and we check where it belongs.
.GUT estimates based on the KfW Municipal Panel, dena, KEA, DGfdB and association statistics. As of September 2026.
Frequently asked questions.
What does it cost?
Registering is free, and so is the positioning in which we place your solution. Taking part in the standards workshop costs a fixed amount that we state before the workshop. If it comes to a framework agreement, .GUT receives a share of the savings that standardisation and pooling bring on both sides. That is not a surcharge on your solution, but part of what would not exist without .GUT.
How mature does my solution have to be?
From the first prototype to a solution established in the market. .GUT is built for established solutions: standard, framework agreement and then delivery to many municipalities. In the positioning we rate the readiness level. If the solution is still early, the municipalities in the workshop tell you whether it hits the mark and what is missing, documented feedback for your investors.
Is this fine under procurement law?
Yes. We comply with procurement law and use the options it already offers today, such as joint tenders and framework agreements. That saves effort on all sides and is rarely used so far. The standard is published before anything is tendered, and it describes requirements, not products.
How does an order come about?
The municipalities that want to use the standard jointly tender a framework agreement. .GUT supports the procurement process as a neutral party; the award stays with the municipalities. You bid once. From the framework agreement the municipalities then call off individually, without a new procedure.
How is our intellectual property protected?
Standardisation happens at the level of requirements, not at the level of your solution. The standard says what a solution must do, not how yours achieves it. You do not have to disclose your technology, your processes or your pricing for that.
Can you get us orders directly?
No. We pass on no details of municipalities and broker no orders. That is exactly why municipalities talk to us, and why you sit at the table with them in the workshop. Orders come about through the framework agreement that the municipalities tender jointly.
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Tell us in two minutes what you deliver and which project it fits. No contract, no costs. You are the first to know when the workshop starts.
Marc Bernath
Founder, .GUT Future Cities