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Provision of books for the municipal library 2027-2029

Leveren van boeken voor de gemeentelijke bibliotheek 2027-2029 — original title

BEBelgiumBELOW THRESHOLD — NOT ON TED

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline for requests to participate: 13 November at 10:00 — 12 days left. Two-stage procedure: by this deadline you submit a request to participate (proof of eligibility). Only shortlisted firms are then invited to submit a tender.
  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

Plots / Lots: The lot of youth literature includes a budget of 2,1000.00 euros including VAT per year. The fate of youth literature includes both fiction and non-fiction youth literature as well as youth comics. The supplier must provide fiction and non-fiction literature and youth comics, with which the library can develop a varied youth collection.; The lot of youth literature ready to go includes a budget of 14,792.00 euros including VAT per year. The fate of youth literature ready-to-cast includes both fiction and non-fiction youth literature as well as youth comics. This collection is intended for six school libraries. This mainly concerns popular titles that will be purchased in plural.; The lot adult literature includes a budget of 25,907.00 euros including VAT per year. The fate of adult literature includes both fiction-already nonfiction literature. The supplier must provide both fiction and non-fiction literature, with which the library can develop a varied adult collection.

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

Contract

BuyerSint-Katelijne-Waver
TypeSupplies
Estimated valuenot published — common for below-threshold procedures
Published22 Oct 2026
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Type of service

22 · Printed matter
CPV 22113000
Clement
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.
You don't need a GmbH or Ltd for this procedure — sole traders and freelancers may bid (Art. 19 Dir. 2014/24/EU). Eligibility counts, not legal form. More in the guide →

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

2
2024
1
2025
2
2026
5 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.
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Deadline — Friday 13 November at 10:00
Deadline for requests to participate

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 148 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 22 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 34 (median of 3,233 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.

Foreign bidders

In Belgium · Printed matter, 24 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 252 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Germany, Netherlands.

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

How to bid

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