Aufgabenträger · Bremen
Freie Hansestadt Bremen — Senator für Bau, Mobilität und Stadtentwicklung
- Abbreviation
- HB
- Land / remit
- Bremen
- Legal form
- City-state ministry
- Seat
- Bremen
Contrescarpe 72, 28195 Bremen
- Website
- www.bauumwelt.bremen.de
- Management
- Özlem Ünsal, Senatorin für Bau, Mobilität und Stadtentwicklung (as of 6 July 2026)
Background
SPNV Aufgabenträger for the City States of Bremen and Bremerhaven, based at the Senator für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Mobilität, Stadtentwicklung und Wohnungsbau (SKUMS). Operational SPNV coordination with Niedersachsen and Hamburg runs through cross-border networks (e.g. Regio-S-Bahn Bremen/Niedersachsen).
Remit and mandate
SPNV-Aufgabenträger for the city-state of Bremen; operational SPNV contracting coordinated through ZVBN (jointly with parts of Lower Saxony).
Tender pipeline — Wettbewerbsfahrplan 2025
The following lots are listed in the 2025 Wettbewerbsfahrplan (BSN) with this authority as the lead or as a participating authority. Leadership counts: 0 lot(s) as lead authority, 7 lot(s) as participating authority.
As participating authority
No. 54
Heidekreuz
Gross · Other / TBD
- Contract term
- 09.12.2029 — 12.12.2042
- Services
- RB · Battery · — M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: yes · ETCS: TBD
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- RB 38 (HH-Harburg) – Buchhholz/N. – Hannover RB 37 Bremen – Soltau – Uelzen RB 32 Lüneburg – Dannenberg (RB 39 Soltau – Lüneburg)
- Remarks
- Vehicles provided by the authority
No. 158
Weser-Ems
— · Open procedure
- Contract term
- 09.12.2035 — TBD
- Services
- RB + RE · Electric + Battery · — M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: no · ETCS: retrofit
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- Osnabrück – Oldenburg – Wilhelmshaven Esens – Sande – Wilhelmshaven Osnabrück – Vechta – Delmenhorst – Bremen
No. 129
Hanse-Netz Nord
Gross · Restricted procedure
- Contract term
- 11.12.2033 — TBD
- Services
- RB + RE · Electric · 6,52 M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: no · ETCS: yes
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- Lot 1 RB 31 Hamburg – Lüneburg (– Hannover) RE 4 Hamburg – Bremen RE 3 Hamburg – Uelzen – Hannover RB 41 Hamburg – Bremen
No. 26
Weser-Elbe
Gross · Restricted procedure
- Contract term
- 12.12.2027 — 12.12.2037
- Services
- RB · Fuel cell · 1,37 M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: no · ETCS: no
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- RB33 Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven – Buxtehude (optional RB 34 Bremervörde – Stade from 12/2028)
- Contract term
- 12.12.2037 — —
- Services
- RB · Fuel cell · 1,37 M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: no · ETCS: —
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- RB33 Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven – Buxtehude RB 34 Bremervörde – Stade
No. 8
Weser - Ems
Gross · Restricted procedure
- Contract term
- 13.12.2026 — 08.12.2035
- Services
- RB · Diesel · 4,33 M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: no · ETCS: no
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- Osnabrück – Oldenburg – Wilhelmshaven Esens – Sande – Wilhelmshaven Osnabrück – Vechta – Delmenhorst – Bremen
- Remarks
- Transitional award still using diesel
No. 1
Hanse-Netz Nord
Gross · Restricted procedure
- Contract term
- 14.06.2026 — 10.12.2033
- Services
- RB + RE · Electric · 6,52 M train-km/yr
- Rolling stock
- Pool: yes · New-build: no · ETCS: yes
- Operator
- Not yet awarded / see authority
- Lines
- Lot 1 RB 31 Hamburg – Lüneburg (– Hannover) RE 4 Hamburg – Bremen RE 3 Hamburg – Uelzen – Hannover RB 41 Hamburg – Bremen
- Remarks
- Re-tender due to early contract termination
Source: Bundesverband SchienenNahverkehr (BSN), Wettbewerbsfahrplan 2025. Data are as published in the Wettbewerbsfahrplan and have not been independently verified against the underlying tender documentation.
Recent tender activity (TED, 2026)
Recent notices in the Supplement to the Official Journal (TED) with this authority as a lead or participating authority. This complements the Wettbewerbsfahrplan 2025 pipeline above; for the cross-cutting read see the development note SPNV procurement wave, mid-2026.
TED 678756-2026
Weser-Elbe and Unterelbe sub-networks
Award notice · Three lots
- Contract term
- Lots 1 and 2: Dec 2027 — Dec 2037 (RB 34 from Dec 2028); lot 3: Dec 2028 — Dec 2033; each plus up to two option years
- Services
- SPNV · ~4.290.000 train-km/yr in total (lot 1 ~2.010.000, lot 2 ~1.590.000, lot 3 ~690.000)
- Rolling stock
- Lots 1 and 2: vehicles and certain preventive and corrective maintenance provided by LNVG. Lot 3: provided and maintained by the operator
- Key date
- Lot 1 to EVB (1 tender, 18.09.2026); lot 2 to metronom (2 tenders, 06.07.2026); lot 3 to erixx (3 tenders, 17.08.2026)
- Lines
- Lot 1: RB 33 Cuxhaven – Bremerhaven – Buxtehude, optionally RB 34 Bremervörde – Stade · Lot 2: RE 5 Cuxhaven – Stade – Hamburg · Lot 3: RB 39 Lüneburg – Soltau
- Remarks
- Lot limitation on lots 1 and 2 under sec. 30(1) sentence 2 VgV. The lot without authority provision drew the most tenders
Source: TED notices as cited (publication numbers). Facts are as published in the notices and have not been independently verified against the full tender documentation.
Further reading
Last reviewed: 2 October 2026.