Frequently Asked Questions

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ORIS was incubated in the Holcim Innovation Center between 2015 and 2021. The company was created as a neutral and independent commercial entity in 2021. ORIS has a dedicated team and its activities are ring-fenced from the rest of Holcim Group, ensuring the neutrality of its services.

No. ORIS is only the intermediary between material suppliers and construction companies. The sovereignty for offer processing and prices lies completely with our users, and we will deliberately stay out of this relationship in the future. In ORIS itself you will not find any prices for the individual products. Also, the transport costs displayed for competing companies are not actual prices of the competition but are comparative values calculated by ORIS based on the parameters entered and the distance to the project site. The prices you will find in the transport analysis section and in the budget calculation section for road projects are industry standard prices, with each plant having the same prices for better comparability.

Please refer to our dedicated page on Data Policy.

ORIS is an intermediary between material suppliers and construction companies. To increase the visibility and trust of other users in the accuracy of the data, it is worthwhile to store and maintain the information. The more accurate the data, the more targeted potential customers can search for and contact information. For example, some users filter plants by specific materials - so it pays to have the products offered stored.

The Bronze, Silver or Gold awards are an easy way to show users which works have well maintained information. A site receives bronze if it has been ensured that the information about the plant, such as name or location, is correct. Silver is awarded to a production site if the products and materials have been maintained and information about the products has been stored. Gold is awarded to a site if the product information has been updated repeatedly, for example if the information on the test certificates is renewed after 6 months.

No, we welcome you to provide us with information regarding your plants and products. Our dedicated ORIS team will handle the data entry process for you. In order to proceed, we require the following data:

1. Assignment of the products to the corresponding plants.
2. Initial test certificates of the products (if available).
3. Declaration of Performance (DOP) for products with CE marking.
4. Test certificates of the products.

Please keep in mind that the test certificates for the products are renewed every 6 months. Therefore, it is essential to regularly update them in ORIS.

Additionally, for UK products, please ensure that they bear the UKCA mark as well.

On July 1, 2013, the new Construction Products Regulation (CPD) came into force. For CE marked building materials and UKCA marked products for the UK, the manufacturer must provide a so-called "declaration of performance" from this date when placing a construction product on the market. In order to make this information directly visible to interested construction companies in ORIS, you can store the data from the declaration of performance and the test certificates for the individual products - or send us your files, and we will be happy to enter the information for you.

Yes - feel free to contact us and we will be happy to make the changes for you.

Please send us any certification you may have but note that ORIS can help you calculate the carbon footprint for materials. Our platform has a carbon calculator which follows a whole life cycle analysis, based on international norms (ISO and EN) and verified by Intertek. 

Currently, "public tenders" only include tenders in the area of road construction. Additional tenders are currently not yet available, but are currently being connected and should soon be visible on the map.

You can find the functionality by entering "Transportation Analysis" in the navigation bar at the top of ORIS and then selecting "Public Tenders" from the menu on the left, the second screen from the top. If neither of these work, feel free to contact our ORIS team, we may need to enable the feature for you first.

Greenprofi is Germany's construction information service for public tenders, participation competitions, private/commercial construction projects, contract awards and submission results for all market participants in road construction, civil engineering, building construction, landscaping and sports facility construction, civil engineering and track construction. In doing so, Greenprofi updates the data on a daily basis and ensures that our customers receive all desired construction information and contact details bundled, up-to-date and complete for their market overview and for their order acquisition. More information can be found on the Greenprofi website.

Yes. (see "I do not have a Greenprofi user profile. Can I still see the map with public tenders?").

Yes, we can create a no-obligation, 2-week test profile for you at Greenprofi. Then you can test the functionality in ORIS. Greenprofi will make you a non-binding offer after the 2 test weeks.

Greenprofi creates offers individually for each user or company, based on the amount of information they want to be provided (public tenders, preliminary information, bidding competitions, submission results, award notices and more) The number of zip code areas they want to see RFPs for. Feel free to contact our ORIS team to receive a no-obligation quote from Greenprofi.

For maps and traffic data, ORIS uses data from Here-Maps. The special thing about the data we obtain via Here is that it is specifically designed for trucks. For example, height or weight restrictions, road rules for commercial freight, or passability for certain types of trucks are taken into account when choosing a route. You can find more information on Here website.

ORIS does not know the prices of the competition, as ORIS has nothing to do with pricing. The transport costs per ton are calculated based on the indicated daily rates for trucks in the respective market area.

Yes. In ORIS, you can choose between the average duration and the duration at a specific time. The specific time takes into account the traffic situation and average travel time on that weekday and time.

ORIS is offered as a software-as-a-service on a subscription basis. We have different pricing plans - see our solution page.

Yes, you can try ORIS with limited access to features.

Per company, ORIS sends you a statement annually instead of every month. The costs per user per month are added up over the year. If you have not used ORIS for the entire year, you will of course only be billed for the months in which you had a paid ORIS user profile.