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Supply and management of subscriptions and technical literature
Levering en beheer abonnementen en vakliteratuur — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 4 November at 12:00 — 3 days left.
- You submit on TenderNed — not here and not by e-mail. ↗ Submission via TenderNed with an eHerkenning account — issuance for foreign firms can take time; apply early. Sort out account and signature first — not on submission day.
- Offer and evidence in: Dutch.
- Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
What the buyer is looking for
The purpose of this invitation to tender is to contract a supplier who provides and relieves the Province of the supply and management of subscriptions to newspapers and specialist journals and specialist literature (books, specialist journals and newspapers) and their invoicing. See Section 1.2.2 of the Descriptive Document.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (280 procedures with a bid count); 13% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 280
- 26% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (147 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 63%.n = 147
- 5% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (316 awards since 2015, spread over 145 companies). 95% went to new names.n = 316 awards since 2015
- The award came in at a median 82% of the estimated value (5 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here.n = 5
- 11% of awards went to companies from abroad (316 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 7%.n = 316
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.
Selection criteria — via the ESPD
The buyer states in the notice that eligibility is proven through the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD); the concrete requirements are in the tender documents. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Dutch.
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Tender documents — direct download
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.
| Company | Awards | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Tauw BV | 4 | 2024–2026 |
| KplusV B.V. | 2 | 2024–2025 |
| Witteveen+Bos Raadgevende ingenieurs B.V. | 2 | 2025–2026 |
| Sweco Nederland B.V. | 2 | 2024–2026 |
| Antea Nederland B.V. | 2 | 2025–2026 |
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 213 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 56 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 48 (median of 2,911 procedures). A normal window for this market.
Foreign bidders
In the Netherlands · Printed matter, 19 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 305 recorded awards).
Submission language: Dutch.
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