Beschaffungsamt des BMI
Germany's largest civilian federal procurement agency, part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
The Beschaffungsamt des BMI awarded two lots of drone detection and defeat equipment for the Bundespolizei to EW Drone Passion and SteelRock Technologies without a call for competition, in notices published on 10 September 2026.
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German federal police buy anti-drone kit
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The Beschaffungsamt des BMI is the procurement office of Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior and the largest civilian buying agency of the federal government. From its head office in Bonn and a second site in Erfurt, it buys goods and services centrally for federal authorities.
Its September 2026 counter-drone purchase shows that central role at work. The office bought for the federal police, which guards borders, railways and the largest airports, and chose an Austrian and a British supplier by negotiated procedure. Neither Tenders Electronic Daily notice, 622940-2026 or 623227-2026, published a value.
The kit it chose is portable police equipment for sites such as airport perimeters and railway yards, a different class of purchase from the heavy, integrated air defence that German primes such as Rheinmetall offer the military.