Submissions indicator
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| description | Tender notices |
| publishing company | Submissions-Anzeiger Verlag GmbH |
| First edition | 1898 |
| Frequency of publication | Mondays to Fridays |
| Editor-in-chief | Hans-Joachim Busch |
| executive Director | Florian Lauenstein |
| Web link | www.submission.de |
The Submissions-Anzeiger is a daily newspaper and database for tenders based in Hamburg . The Submissions-Anzeiger appears as the only newspaper for tenders throughout Germany five days a week (Monday to Friday) and is distributed exclusively by post via subscriptions. The circle of recipients consists of structural and civil engineering companies, gardeners and landscapers, branches of the supplier industry, architects, engineering offices, construction equipment manufacturers and authorities. There is also the option of an online subscription. The publisher is Submissions-Anzeiger Verlag GmbH.
history
Origins
The first edition of the Submissions-Anzeiger appeared in 1898, at that time still under the title Norddeutscher Submissions-Anzeiger . It was published two days a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. From October 1901 the Submissions-Anzeiger appeared on Wednesdays and Saturdays due to the postponement of the announcement dates. Just one year later, the frequency of publication was expanded to three days a week: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. In 1906 the Submissions-Anzeiger appeared six times a week.
The distribution area was also constantly expanded in the first few years. In the early days it mainly extended to the greater Hamburg area, in 1902 it included Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Pomerania, Rhineland-Westphalia, Hesse, Saxony, Braunschweig and Brandenburg.
The publisher changed frequently in the early years. However, since it was founded, the Submissions-Anzeiger has always been editorially edited and published in Hamburg. In the early days, Konrad Hanf was a publisher for a large part of the time and at times also took over the printing.
The newspaper was initially small. Until 1901 it consisted of only four pages - in 1903 it was twice as much on average. The number of newly published tenders and notices increased from 20 per issue in 1901 to 80 per issue in 1903.
In the early years, the posting position was largely the Hamburg Finance Deputation . But the Royal Government, the Royal Railway Directorate, the administrative department of the Imperial Shipyard , the City Planning Department, the government master builder and other municipal and local authorities published their orders in the Submissions-Anzeiger in order to find a suitable contractor.
In 1944, the Submissions-Anzeiger had to stop reporting.
From 1949
After the Second World War , the Submissions-Anzeiger resumed its work on May 15, 1949. For the time being, he appeared two days a week in the United West Territories and reported on all tenders, their results and awards, as well as sales, construction notices, competitions, building laws and regulations. The publisher was Hermann Hintze. Initially, only the city of Hamburg was responsible for the advertisement.
The size of the submission scoreboard fluctuated between eight and 24 pages well into the 1970s. At the beginning of the 1980s, the number of pages in the submission indicator rose continuously, as the switch to offset printing enabled significantly more pages to be printed in less time.
In 1996 there was a major innovation: the submissions indicator via mailbox at DOS level. Customers could call up the tenders via a mailbox system. A very simple but practical system for getting tenders quickly. Even then, personal search profiles could be saved and thus researched precisely - as is the case today with the online database (see Chapter 4). Due to the further development of the Windows operating system and the possibilities of the Internet, however, completely new possibilities arose during this time, so that this mailbox system could not be maintained for long.
present
The print copy appears five times a week throughout Germany and is also sent by post to other European countries. The online database www.submission.de offers an additional service, on which the latest tenders are published daily. The publisher currently has 20 employees (as of April 2011).
A generation change took place in 2011. The publishing house moved from Hamburg-Eimsbüttel to Schopenstehl 15 in the Miramarhaus in the Kontorhausviertel in Hamburg's old town. In addition, the publisher was renamed, the publishing house and printing company Hintze GmbH became Submissions-Anzeiger Verlag GmbH .
The public sector, throughout Germany, is still largely responsible for the posting. However, private tenders are now also published in the Submissions-Anzeiger.
content
The submission indicator appears in half-Nordic format (also tabloid or half broadsheet). The volume of an issue is 24 to 64 pages. Around 400 new tenders are published every day.
As in the past, the Submissions-Anzeiger publishes tenders and notices for construction contracts, services and deliveries. The publication and a specimen copy are free of charge for the advertising bodies.
The type of jobs advertised has changed over time. In the early days, the focus was on railway construction (tenders for rail construction, construction of stations, etc.). Today, a large part of the tenders come from the main construction and secondary trades, but the proportion of tendered services and deliveries is also growing increasingly.
In addition to the tenders and announcements, an editorial section has also become firmly established in the journal. One of these first appeared in 1902 under the title Kleine Mitteilungen . Today the editorial section takes up two to four pages per issue and deals with news from the construction industry, for example new buildings, construction machinery or trade fairs. The idea of the editorial team is to offer the reader of the submission scoreboard added value beyond the advertisements.
Typesetting and printing
The Submissions-Anzeiger initially appeared in Fraktur . From July 9, 1902, the publisher switched to the Latin script .
Until 1984 the newspaper was created with manual and machine typesetting . The letters for large fonts were made of wood or were carved from special linoleum. The text of the tenders was created with a machine set (lead lines from individual matrices). Due to this very complex printing method, the employees of the Hintze publishing house worked in three shifts. In the in-house print shop, third-party products such as posters, brochures, letterhead and books were also printed. However, the Submissions Scoreboard was the main product.
In 1984 photo typesetting went through a rapid development, so that it became apparent for the Submissions-Anzeiger that book printing no longer had a future. Font manufacturers such as H. Berthold AG , which had been supplying the Submissions-Anzeiger for years, no longer produced any fonts. Since the fonts only lasted a limited edition, the submission indicator also had to switch to the new offset printing process. This happened continuously in 1984 and 1985. The first typesetting machines were still without a screen. The typed text appeared on a scrolling line. The submission indicator used the Scangraphic typesetting system. The films that came out of the imagesetter were initially developed by hand. This system enabled significantly more text to be recorded compared to the previous printing process, so that the number of pages in the submission indicator increased continuously.
In 1986 the first monitors were available at the Submissions-Anzeiger: monochrome with green letters. In addition, a developing machine and a repro camera for large fonts and images were purchased. A new typesetting system (tradition) was acquired that worked on Windows level (Win 3.11), largely with the typesetting settings of the old Scangraphic system.
In 1996 a lot more texts were processed with PC and Windows ( Win95 ). The shift work in the Submissions-Anzeiger's house was discontinued because printing had become more and more automated and therefore less effort was required for the employees.
From 1949 to 2008 the submission indicator was produced in-house by the Hintze printing company. For economic reasons, it was decided to outsource, so that today the publishing house and editorial team are still in-house. The printing and bookbinding departments were closed in 2008.
Online database
The integrated database of the submission scoreboard has been online since 1998. The online database (submission.de), also known as the tender database, can be used as an alternative to the daily newspaper of the submission scoreboard. The same Germany-wide tenders can be called up there that also appear in the print edition - however, they are updated daily and offer customers more topicality. In addition, Europe-wide tenders are published in the online database.
In addition to the search options for specific advertisements, the tender database also offers personal search profiles, automatic e-mail notifications, lists of bidders and a direct link to the job posting. The various electronic tendering systems (some federal states have several) can thus be operated from one platform.
Oddities
A tender usually includes a clear construction project, such as the construction of a new public building, work on a certain street, etc. A high point in the history of the Submissions-Scoreboard was the tender for the construction of an entire city in China in 1974.