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A08.544.2025 Framework Agreement Public Lighting: Maintenance and Replacement Projects
A08.544.2025 Raamovereenkomst Openbare Verlichting: Onderhoud en Vervangingsprojecten — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 20 November at 09:00 — 19 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
With this tender, the municipality of Leiden aims to conclude a single comprehensive framework agreement for public lighting (OVL). Part of the scope is failure and maintenance OVL and project-based replacements OVL. For a specific description of the work, please refer to the specifications. Failure and maintenance Public Lighting • Corrective and preventive maintenance, including preservation (painting) of cast iron and steel masts. • Fixing disturbances to public lighting (light fixtures, masts, cables, control cabinets), both indoor and outdoor working hours (24/7). • Handling via the failure management system MOON or equivalent. • Response, recovery and reporting times in accordance with the KPIs in the RAW specifications. • Safeguarding electrical installations in public spaces at the request of the municipality, police or fire brigade. • Occasional replacements of existing OVL. •…
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… Alignment and coordination with third-party contracts (utilities and project promoters). • Drawing up traffic plans and submitting them to the municipality of Leiden's department of traffic management. Project-based replacements Public Lighting • Supply, installation, connection and replacement of public lighting (lights, masts, cables, control cabinets). • Work takes place within both civil engineering projects and self-employed OVL projects. • Implementation as a secondary contractor for larger infrastructure projects. • Carrying out the administrative processing, updating revision data and recording changes in the municipal management system. • Drawing up traffic plans and submitting them to the municipality of Leiden's department of traffic management.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 13% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (168 awards since 2023, spread over 138 companies). 87% went to new names.n = 168 awards since 2023
- The median procedure drew 3 bids (168 procedures with a bid count); 23% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 168
- 6% of awards went to companies from abroad (168 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 5%.n = 168
- 30% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (159 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 35%.n = 159
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.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| De Heer land en water B.V. | 4 | 2024–2025 |
| Van Doorn Geldermalsen B.V. | 4 | 2024–2025 |
| Blom's Automobielbedrijf BV | 3 | 2024–2026 |
| Barthen Rioleringswerken B.V. | 3 | 2023–2025 |
| Compeer - Huybens | 3 | 2024–2025 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 1,002 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 32 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 48 (median of 2,911 procedures). Much tighter than usual: the first week counts.
Foreign bidders
In the Netherlands · Repair & maintenance, 51 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 1,216 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, Belgium.
Submission language: Dutch.
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