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Preferred suppliers civil works

Preferred suppliers civiele werken — original title

NLNetherlands · Amsterdam

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 16 December at 12:00 — 45 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 work mainly consists of: • the excavation, transport and processing of (contaminated) soil; • the supply of sand for sandbed; • the removal and installation of divers, sewers and duct connections; • the removal and installation of ducts and wells; • the installation of sheet piles; • the milling and sawing of asphalt concrete; • the breaking up of asphalt concrete pavements, foundations, pavements and canopy closures; • the installation of stone mixture foundations, asphalt concrete pavements, pavements and • canopy closures; • the removal and installation of (natural) stone; • the removal and installation of greenery; • the removal and installation of markings and signs; • the removal and installation of public lighting installations, including cabling and installation cabinets • the repair of works commissioned by the VU; • the installation and removal of street furniture; • the execution of associated and additional activities The current planning is from 7-8 million years over 4 years

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

Contract

TypeWorks
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published21 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Framework agreement

Type of service

45 · Construction work
CPV 45222000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • In this sector the buyer awards roughly every month (8 awards, most recently February 2025) — by that rhythm the next award was due around March 2025. The last award went to Homij Technische Installaties B.V.n = 8
  • 2% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (186 awards since 2015, spread over 76 companies). That is well below the sector norm (18%) — this buyer switches suppliers more often than others.n = 186 awards since 2015
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (157 procedures with a bid count); 14% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 4 bids.n = 157
  • 55% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (57 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 29%.n = 57
  • 10% of awards went to companies from abroad (186 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 2%.n = 186

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 — 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
Homij Technische Installaties B.V.32024–2025
Heijmans Utiliteit B.V.22026
BOOT organiserend ingenieursburo B.V.12025
Unique Nederland B.V.12025
Unica Installatietechniek B.V.12024
From the recorded awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.

How often this buyer tenders this kind of work

5
2024
2
2025
2
2026
9 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

Websitewww.vu.nl
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Deadline — Wednesday 16 December at 12:00

Tactics

When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 4 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 8 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 57 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 48 (median of 2,911 procedures). A normal window for this market.

Foreign bidders

In the Netherlands · Construction work, 31 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 2,446 recorded awards) — mostly from Belgium, Germany, France.

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
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