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Matching application

Matchingsapplicatie — original title

NLNetherlands · UTRECHT

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 23 November at 12:00 — 22 days left.
  2. 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.
  3. Offer and evidence in: Dutch.
  4. Collect your evidence — use the eligibility analysis on this page: it lists the requirements and, for known certificates, how to get them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

The municipality of Utrecht wants to conclude an Agreement for the delivery and implementation of a SaaS solution to support the services for the Acquisition and Matching department, including management, maintenance and additional consultancy. The ICT deliverable shall provide annually for: 60 mute licences: Users can access, add and modify the data and functionalities for which they are authorised. 15 access licences: Users can only access the data and functionalities for which they are authorised. 5 management licenses: users have additional management rights for, among other things, managing users, (de)activating licenses and granting and changing authorizations. Additional on-demand consultancy

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published6 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Contract period1 Mar 2027 → 28 Feb 2029

Type of service

72 · IT services
CPV 72268000 · 72263000 · 72266000 · 72267000 · 72300000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 2 months (24 awards, most recently October 2026) — the next award is due around December 2026 by that rhythm. The last award went to Joint Cash & Card Software B.V.n = 24
  • 5% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (728 awards since 2015, spread over 314 companies). 95% went to new names.n = 728 awards since 2015
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (620 procedures with a bid count); 19% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 620
  • The award came in at a median 86% of the estimated value (21 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 79%.n = 21
  • 11% of awards went to companies from abroad (728 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 8%.n = 728

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 25/10/2026.

Clement
References and certificates from your home country count fully across the EU — that is what European procurement law is for.

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

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Annex 1
Specifications and annexes at the buyer — usually viewable without registration
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Administrative conditions
The full notice, official wording

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
Jos Scholman Groen B.V.82024–2026
BAM Infra B.V.52024–2026
A. Agterberg B.V.32024–2025
Gebroeders M. en W. Bron B.V.32024–2026
B & R Groep B.V.22025
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

26
2024
25
2025
22
2026
73 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

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Deadline — Monday 23 November at 12:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 23 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 49 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 48 (median of 2,911 procedures). A normal window for this market.

The deadline falls on a Monday — your last full working day is the Friday before. Have evidence and guarantees together by Thursday.

Foreign bidders

In the Netherlands · IT services, 130 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,961 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, Belgium.

Submission language: Dutch.

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
Goes directly to this tender on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily. The full specification and all annexes are there.
This procedure is published on 2 portals
Bids are submitted on TenderNed — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
TEDNoticeTenderNedSubmission portal
Put together the evidence — in Dutch
Certificates, references and your price — as set out in the notice.
Submit via TED — Tenders Electronic Daily before the deadline
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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