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Cyber Team Europe initiative ‘Safe Digital Boost for Africa (SDBA) Continental’

Netherlands · how to bid here →

Your path to submission

  1. Deadline: 11 November at 12:00 — 39 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: NLD.
  4. Collect your evidence — the eligibility requirements are listed above; 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.

Clement What the numbers say about this buyer

  • The median procedure drew 25 bids (26 procedures with a bid count); 8% ended with a single bidder. Country: median 3.9 bids.n = 26
  • 14% of this buyer's awards went to companies that had already won here before (37 awards since 2015, spread over 30 companies). 86% went to new names.n = 37 awards since 2015
  • 16% of the bids received came from small and medium-sized enterprises (24 procedures with a bid mix). Country: 44%.n = 24
  • 22% of awards went to companies from abroad (37 awards with a known winner country). National average: 11%.n = 37

From this buyer's documented awards; comparison values from the same sector and country. Not a forecast, not legal advice. As of 28/09/2026.

Clement
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Foreign bidders

In Netherlands, 2,047 contracts went to foreign companies over the last 3 years (of 35,143 recorded awards) — mostly from Germany, France, Belgium.

Measured from linked award data; foreign winners bidding through a local subsidiary count as domestic — the true share is higher.

What the buyer is looking for

The purpose of this tender procedure is a service contract to support the implementation of RVO activities of the European project Safe Digital Boost for Africa (SDBA) – Continental, with the African union. Particularly focusing on the four RVO themes for cyber security capacity building: Critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP), Public-private partnerships (PPPs), Cyber skills development/Human capital agenda (HCA) & Cyber hygiene awareness.

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

Selection criteria — in the procurement documents

The buyer states in the notice that the selection criteria are in the procurement documents (link on the right), not in the EU form. The document analysis below extracts them from there — bid and evidence in Dutch.

Contract

BuyerMinisterie van Economische Zaken
TypeServices
Estimated valuevalue not published
Published2 October 2026

Who has won here before

CompanyAwardsPeriod
Stichting SEO Economisch Onderzoek22024–2025
Van Gansewinkel Nederland BV22015
LINKIT B.V.22025
SynProfs B.V.22025
Cimsolutions B.V.22025
From 18.0M documented awards · regular winners know this buyer's requirements — that is your competition.
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days until the deadline — Wednesday 11 November at 12:00

How to bid

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