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DAS SURF Cumulus Professional Services 2023

NLNetherlands · Utrecht
Dynamic purchasing system. Suppliers can join at any time; the date shown is the end of the system, not a submission deadline. Individual contracts are later awarded among admitted participants only.

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline for requests to participate: 31 March 2027 at 23:59 — 151 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.
  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, English.
  4. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed on this page; for many of them the analysis explains how to obtain them.
Compiled automatically from notice and documents — no guarantee; the procedure's wording is binding.

What the buyer is looking for

De toekomst van de ICT en bijbehorende dienstverlening voor onderwijs- en onderzoek ligt volgens SURF én de leden voor een belangrijk deel in de cloud. De leden (instellingen) willen daarom flexibel gebruik kunnen maken van de cloud en deze combineren met eigen ICT-infrastructuren (hybride infrastructuur). Overgang naar de cloud is in de praktijk geen eenvoudige stap, en voor veel instellingen geldt dat er weinig ervaring mee is opgedaan. Er kunnen daardoor onverwachte uitdagingen ontstaan tijdens de uitvoering van cloud projecten alsook in de beheerfase erna. De initieel beoogde voordelen worden dan niet behaald waardoor afbreukrisico c.q. kapitaalvernietiging kan ontstaan. Om instellingen te ondersteunen bij deze uitdagingen is het dan ook gewenst om SURFcumulus Professional Services via een SURF aanbesteding voor hen beschikbaar te maken. SURF kiest ervoor om dit via een DAS te laten…

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… verlopen. De levering van SURFcumulus Professional Services is nadrukkelijk gekoppeld aan de SURFcumulus dienst. Concreet gaat het om uitvoerende, gangbare dienstverlening bedoeld voor cloud implementatie, -migratie en -beheer. Levering gebeurt op basis van vaste prijs en vaste opleverdatum. Een nadere omschrijving van de dienstverleningonderdelen is als volgt: Inrichten van een cloud landing zone, geïntegreerd in de bestaande (hybride) architectuur van een instelling, ten minste omvattend: Account setup: gebaseerd op de administratieve organsiatie, compliance richtlijnen, bestaande omgevingen en structuren van de instelling. Network configuratie: volgens richtlijnen, binnen cloud omgevingen en tussen on-premise en deze cloud omgevingen. Security baseline: identity en access management op basis van SURFconext, bechikbaarheid van gestandaardiseerde, hardened machine images, security policies, network monitoring en log analytics. Automation: gestandaardiseerde inrichting van security, governance, and kostenoptimalisatie. Uitvoeren/ondersteunen van cloud migraties, door middel van: Lift-and-shift migratie scenario: het zonder ingrijpende wijzigingen (deels) verplaatsen van een ICT infrastructuur uit een datacenter naar de cloud. Re-design migratie scenario: het cloud ready maken van (een deel van) een bestaande ICT infrastructuur en/of het implementeren van vervangende, nieuw te bouwen oplossingen waardoor het potentieel van de cloud optimaal benut kan worden. Leveren van cloud managed services in de (hybride) cloud infrastructuur, waaronder bijv.: Operations (accountbeheer, software update management, licentiebeheer, netwerkbeheer, backup & restore, monitoring, platformbeheer) Application management (technisch applicatiebeheer, functioneel applicatiebeheer, gegevensbeheer, applicatie configuratiebeheer) Service support (incident-, problem- & change management, multi vendor coordinatie, tweede en derdelijns support, escalatie afhandeling) Service delivery (service level management, capacity-, cost- en continuity management) Informatie beveiliging en privacy bescherming (detectie, preventie, rapportage, bijsturing). Zie verder het toegevoegde document "Toelatingsleidraad DAS SURFcumulus Professional Services".

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

Contract

TypeServices
Estimated value€4,000,000
Published21 Oct 2026
ProcedureRestricted procedure
Contract period8 Dec 2023 → 1 Apr 2027

Type of service

72 · IT services
CPV 72000000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 53% of awards went to companies from abroad (114 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 8%.n = 114
  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 3 months (4 awards, most recently May 2026) — by that rhythm the next award was due around August 2026. The last award went to Afas Software B.V.n = 4
  • 10% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (114 awards since 2021, spread over 59 companies). 90% went to new names.n = 114 awards since 2021
  • The median procedure drew just one bid (110 procedures with a bid count); 74% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 110
  • The award came in at a median 89% of the estimated value (9 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 80%.n = 9

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.

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

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, English.

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
Wolters Kluwer Nederland B.V.32024–2026
AIP Publishing LLC22024–2026
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS22023–2025
LexisNexis Business Information Solutions B.V.22025
SoftwareONE Netherlands B.V.22024–2026
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

1
2023
10
2024
18
2025
13
2026
42 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 — Wednesday, 31 March 2027 at 23:59
Deadline for requests to participate

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 4 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 162 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 48 (median of 2,911 procedures). Much more generous than usual — time for a thorough bid rather than a quick one.

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, English.

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, English
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.
To the procurement portal →Official notice on TED →
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