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.

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. Feel free to send us the information about your plants and products, and the ORIS team will enter all the data for you. For this we need the following data: An assignment of the products to the respective plants The initial test certificates of the products (if available) The declaration of performance (DOP) of the products (for products with CE marking) The test certificates of the products Please note that the test certificates of the products are renewed every 6 months and must therefore also be regularly updated in ORIS.

On July 1, 2013, the new Construction Products Regulation (CPD) came into force. For CE marked building materials, 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 (you can find out exactly how in the point about this - "Do I have to enter the information about the works and products myself?").

Yes - feel free to send us a quick email and we will be happy to make the changes for you.

Please send us an EPD (Environmental Product Declaration/ CO2 certification) or comparable certification, we will then change the data in the system. Since a correct data basis is important, you yourself as a user are not able to change the data. If you do not yet have an EPD or similar, you will receive the industry average value for your products.

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.

For each company within your specified range, you will see the following data (from top to bottom, left to right): - Distance (km): distance to your selected project location (one way, no round trip). - Total Transportation Cost (EUR): Total cost for the amount of material you specify is required - Transport CO2 (kg CO2eq): Cost equivalent of calculated CO2 consumption based on CO2 per ton kilometer data from the German Federal Ministry of - Environment. They are calculated based on full and empty trips (full on the outward trip, empty on the return trip) - Round trip: number of possible round trips per day with the specified travel time as well as the time for loading and unloading - Transport time (h:mm): One-way travel time from the plant to the project location you specify. - Cost/ M^3 (EUR): Transportation cost per ton, based on the parameters - inclusion of travel time, daily rates for the truck and (if specified) other costs.

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. There is a monthly fee of 99€ per user for the use of ORIS.

Yes, you can try ORIS with the full set of functionalities for one month free of charge. If you then decide not to pay for ORIS, your access to ORIS will remain unchanged and you can continue to use ORIS with a limited amount of functionality. You can decide to pay for ORIS at any time.

In the free version, only the digital product management and the map of production sites are available.

ORIS can be canceled at any time at the end of the month. You retain your free access to ORIS even after cancellation.

Of course. Just write us a short mail or give us a call and we will unlock you again for the full range of functionalities.

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.

Just write us a short, informal e-mail.