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Identity Access Management
Your path to submission
- Deadline: 8 January 2027 at 16:00 — 68 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 — 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
The reason for this tender is Leiden University's decision to renew the IAM environment. An important part of the new IAM environment will be midPoint, a software product focused on Identity Governance and Administration. Leiden University is looking for a service provider for the hosting, technical management, and application development and management on the implementation of midPoint and adjacent components for Leiden University. Leiden University is implementing a renewed Identity & Access Management (IAM) landscape to support the management of digital identities, authentication, authorizations and lifecycle management of users. The IAM landscape is a business-critical provision for employees, students, guests, applications and administrators. The client chooses a sourcing model in which the technical management, hosting and technical further development of the IAM platform are…
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… hosted by an external service provider. The university itself is in charge, determines the governance and architecture frameworks, and performs functional management itself.
Contract
Type of service
Clement What the numbers say about this buyer
- 5% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (174 awards since 2015, spread over 66 companies). 95% went to new names.n = 174 awards since 2015
- 23% of awards went to companies from abroad (174 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 8%.n = 174
- The award came in at a median 93% of the estimated value (26 awards with both estimate and value) — pricing at the estimate is usually too high here. Sector: 80%.n = 26
- The median procedure drew 2 bids (139 procedures with a bid count); 47% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 2 bids.n = 139
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Radiometer Physics GmbH · Meckenheim | 3 | 2022–2023 |
| FEI Europe B.V. | 2 | 2024–2025 |
| Nikon Europe BV | 2 | 2024–2025 |
| AB Sciex Netherlands B.V. | 2 | 2015–2024 |
| AE Security Group | 2 | 2023 |
How often this buyer tenders this kind of work
Tactics
When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually only one or two bids came in. A solid bid has a real chance here. (Based on 1,619 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)
This procedure allows 78 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.
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