Every year, HOCHTIEF spends more than 75 percent of its total output on procuring materials and services. In 2006 this amounted to around EUR 12.5 billion.

Favorable purchasing terms naturally represent one factor in how HOCHTIEF judges successful procurement. Increasingly, though, the focus is on optimizing procurement processes and ensuring effective procurement management, strategic supplier selection and the bundling of requirements on a Group-wide basis – all with the aim of tapping synergy effects in global procurement.