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With a recently concluded connection agreement between the Bundeswehr and Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH (ESG), the Central Bundeswehr Spare Parts Logistics (ZEBEL) will continue to operate without interruption. The current contract is limited to August 31, 2026. The connection contract begins on August 1, 2026, runs until December 31, 2032 and can be extended by two years, as the Bundeswehr procurement office announced on July 18.

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved the project on May 15 and made available 325 million euros from Section 14 (ESuTreported).

The procedure, which was established in 2000, initially only related to material for army equipment/land systems.

In the classic ZEBEL project part, the supply in practice essentially involves individual consumer goods that are stored in the Bundeswehr's central logistics and made available to the logistics service provider on request, writes the BAAINBw. The latter stores the goods in its own storage facility in the sense of a picking warehouse. The range of services also includes transport to the maintenance facilities on the desired date or within 48 hours and the handling of all associated management functions in close cooperation with the logistics command, logistics center and procurement office of the Bundeswehr.

A new addition is the project portion of the Bundeswehr's non-autonomous federal camps (naBELBw). This provides spare parts for the repair of aircraft, aviation equipment and additional equipment of the Bundeswehr (LLZ), which is largely carried out by civilian companies and institutions with which separate maintenance framework contracts are agreed. According to the BAAINBw, in order to ensure a continuous supply of spare parts, some of them have so-called non-autonomous federal warehouses in order to store supplies owned by the Bundeswehr and to enable certain supplies to be transferred to the property of the federal government. Through the ZEBEL project, ESG will continue to be commissioned to provide the data and material management services required for the supply of spare parts.

A standardized connection between the civilian facilities and the Bundeswehr's IT system takes place across projects via an IT interface. This creates all the necessary conditions to ensure that the maintenance facilities of the Bundeswehr and civilian service providers are always supplied with supplies in a timely manner and that this can be significantly improved through media-free data exchange.

In the classic ZEBEL project component, around 450 service recipients are currently being supplied and material and data management is currently being carried out for 27 non-autonomous federally owned warehouses.

Editorial staff / gwh

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