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Outsourcing ICT
Your path to submission
- Deadline for requests to participate: 16 November at 10:00 — 15 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.
- 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
Outsourcing of services for the hosting of applications, the management and maintenance of the ICT infrastructure, workplaces and telephone and customer contact facilities. See Selection Guide
Contract
Type of service
Selection criteria — in the procurement documents
The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on this page), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Dutch.
Eligibility analysis from the tender documents
Tender documents — direct download
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
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 1,619 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 31 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 48 (median of 2,911 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.
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.
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