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Framework agreement with one participant for the delivery of books to the library and the sale of textbooks to students

Raamovereenkomst met één deelnemer voor het leveren van boeken aan de bibliotheek en de verkoop van studieboeken aan studenten — original title

BEBelgium · Antwerpen

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 26 November at 23:00 — 26 days left.
  2. You submit on BDA / e-Procurement Belgium — not here and not by e-mail. ↗
  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 purpose of this public contract is to conclude a framework agreement with one participant for the supply of books to the library and the sale of textbooks to students. This assignment includes the structural supply of the various libraries of AP University of Applied Sciences and the sale of the official textbooks directly to the students. For a detailed overview of all the minimum requirements and qualitative requirements relating to this contract, please refer explicitly to the technical provisions of these specifications. By submitting the tender, the tenderer expressly waives the application of its own general and special conditions.

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

Contract

TypeSupplies
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published27 Oct 2026
ProcedureOpen procedure
Framework agreement

Type of service

22 · Printed matter
CPV 22113000 · 22100000 · 22111000 · 22112000

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • 6% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (88 awards since 2015, spread over 48 companies). 94% went to new names.n = 88 awards since 2015
  • The median procedure drew 3 bids (56 procedures with a bid count); 25% ended with a single bidder. Sector: median 3 bids.n = 56
  • 14% of awards went to companies from abroad (88 awards with a known winner country). Sector average: 15%.n = 88

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.

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
Beneens J. en Zonen BVBA22015
Bulvano NV22015
Horeservi Catering NV22015
RBC België BVBA22015
Ahrend Furniture NV22015
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
3
2026
8 procedures in this category since 2019. Public procurement repeats itself — those who know the rhythm prepare instead of reacting.

Contracting authority contact

Websitewww.ap.be
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Deadline — Thursday 26 November at 23:00

Tactics

When contracts were awarded in this country and sector, usually about 3 bids came in. A normal field for this market. (Based on 148 completed awards — not a statement about this procedure.)

This procedure allows 31 days between publication and deadline — typical in this country is 34 (median of 3,233 procedures). A normal window for this market.

Foreign bidders

In Belgium · Printed matter, 24 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 252 recorded awards) — mostly from France, Germany, Netherlands.

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 BDA / e-Procurement Belgium — TED carries the same notice, usually with the more detailed specification. Read both.
TEDNoticeBDA / e-Procurement BelgiumSubmission 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
Electronic submission — allow time for the portal registration the first time.
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