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Operation of Charleroi weekly markets

Exploitation des marchés hebdomadaires de Charleroi — original title

BEBelgiumBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 24 November at 23:55 — 23 days left.
  2. You submit on BDA / e-Procurement Belgium — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  3. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

A service concession within the meaning of Article 2 of the Law of 17 June 2016 on concession contracts for the operation of its weekly supply contracts which take place in the various sections of Charleroi Percelen / Lots: Service concession relating to the operation of the weekly contracts

Machine translation (EU eTranslation) — official wording via the PDF link.

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published20 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure

Type of service

79 · Business services
CPV 79950000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (64 procedures with a bid count); 20% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 5 bids.n = 64
  • 2% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (111 awards since 2015, spread over 53 companies). 98% went to new names.n = 111 awards since 2015
  • Across 7 procedures with structured selection criteria, this buyer most often required: Minimum annual turnover (4 of 7), References: services (3 of 7), Special authorisation or membership required (2 of 7), Minimum turnover in the contract field (1 of 7).n = 7
  • 29% of awards went to companies from abroad (111 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 29%.n = 111

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 01/11/2026.

Clement
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.
Too big for you alone? Consortium or reliance on capacity: a partner's references and turnover count (Art. 63 Dir. 2014/24) — cross-border too.

Who has won at this buyer so far

Across all contract types of this buyer — not just this sector. A city buys software and fire engines through the same purchasing office.

CompanyAwardsPeriod
KRINKELS SA22025–2026
DB Heigne22024
LES VOYAGES FRANCOIS LENOIR srl - Lot 112025
PIERRE GENIN SA12025
Pharmacie Libert12025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

1
2022
1
2024
2
2026
4 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.
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Deadline — Tuesday 24 November at 23:55

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually 5 or more bids came in. Many compete here — price and references decide. (Based on 2,001 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 35 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 34 (median of 3,233 procedures). A normal window for this market.

Foreign bidders

In Belgium · Business services, 729 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 3,120 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Germany, Italy.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

How to bid

Read the full notice — Original + documents
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Put together the evidence
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via BDA / e-Procurement Belgium before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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