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AI 2025-0257 Reconditioning steel masts
AI 2025-0257 Reconditioneren stalen masten — original title
Your path to submission
- Deadline for requests to participate: 16 November at 14:00 — 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
AI 2025-0257 Reconditioning steel masts Within the scope of this Assignment are: ▪Removal of the masts to be reconditioned at the municipality's storage site; ▪Intake and registration of masts to be reconditioned (gate check); ▪Making a proposal of numbers of reconditioned returnable masts (and disapproval); ▪Storage of masts supplied by the Municipality for reconditioning; ▪Mass cleaning prior to reconditioning; ▪Reconditioning of the masts; ▪The return of (reconditioned) masts to the storage location of the Municipality. Optional scope of this Assignment ▪Reconditioning steel masts of Traffic Control Installations and Traffic Information Systems; ▪Reconditioning of ‘bicycle staples’. · Lot 1: Recondition steel masts with a total maximum value of € 5,500,000. This concerns about 5500 masts. · Lot 2: Recondition steel masts with a total maximum value of €2,500,000. This concerns about 2500 masts.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- In this sector the buyer awards roughly every 3 months (9 awards, most recently June 2026) — by that rhythm the next award was due around September 2026. The last award went to Gebr. Griekspoor B.V.n = 9
- 5% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (472 awards since 2015, spread over 90 companies). 95% went to new names.n = 472 awards since 2015
- 67% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (82 procedures with a bid mix). Sector: 35%.n = 82
- 16% of awards went to companies from abroad (472 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 5%.n = 472
- The median procedure drew 3 bids (396 procedures with a bid count); 17% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 396
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jos Scholman Groen B.V. | 5 | 2025–2026 |
| H. van Wijk infra B.V. | 3 | 2025–2026 |
| Gebr. Griekspoor B.V. | 3 | 2025–2026 |
| Aannemingsmaatschappij Markus B.V. | 2 | 2026 |
| Dura Vermeer Infra Regionale Projecten BV | 2 | 2025–2026 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When this buyer has awarded in this sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 7 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 26 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 · 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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