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Framework contract for the purchase of knee prostheses and associated instruments for the orthopaedic service
Raamovereenkomst voor de aankoop van knieprothesen met bijhorend instrumentarium voor de dienst orthopedie — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 17 November at 12:00 — 16 days left.
- You submit on BDA / e-Procurement Belgium — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
- Offer and evidence in: Dutch.
- Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
What the buyer is looking for
Subject of these supplies: Framework agreement for the purchase of knee prostheses with associated sterile instruments for the orthopaedic service. Explanation: For our orthopaedics service we are looking for a supplier of knee prostheses that can provide a full set, including the necessary material for placing the prosthesis (instrumentarium). The supplied sets must be delivered sterile. If the supplier cannot take care of this himself, he may use a subcontractor for this, but the supplier of the prostheses remains responsible for the correct delivery of the ordered prostheses. In addition, the supplier clearly indicates which pieces cannot be supplied sterile and must be sterilized in the hospital for use. The prostheses must be delivered to order, the day before the planned operation, in the pharmacy of the hospital. For this framework agreement we count on about 200 prostheses per…
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… year. This is a probable amount. The contracting authority does not guarantee a purchase quantity. Place of delivery: AZ Diest, Pharmacy, Statiestraat 65, 3290 Diest The contracting authority shall ensure that this contract is carried out in compliance with anti-discrimination legislation.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- The median procedure drew 4 bids (5 procedures with a bid count); 0% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 5
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 — 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| V.M.A. NV | 1 | 2022 |
| TM Cordeel Zetel Hoeselt - Vanderstraeten - Wycor | 1 | 2022 |
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 1,686 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 29 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 · Medical equipment & pharma, 452 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 2,450 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Netherlands, Germany.
Submission language: Dutch.
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