Campaign work, public information and how agencies are actually selected
Communications work for public bodies divides into campaigns with a behavioural objective and continuing communications support, and they are tendered differently. A campaign is scoped around a measurable change -- uptake of a service, awareness of a deadline, a safety behaviour -- with research, creative development, media planning and evaluation as distinct workstreams that may be let to different suppliers. Continuing support is usually a framework with a retained team and a rate card, called off as needs arise.
Selection is normally a two-stage process in which a shortlist responds to a live brief, and the response is judged on strategic insight and creative approach as much as on the finished idea. Buyers increasingly limit the amount of speculative creative work they require, and some pay an honorarium for it, because unlimited free pitching narrows the field to agencies that can afford to lose. Named team continuity is a contractual term for the same reason it is in consulting: the pitch team and the delivery team are expected to be the same people.
Two mechanics are specific to this category. Media buying is usually separated from creative and audited, with the agency required to disclose rebates, volume discounts and any principal trading so that the buyer knows whether it is paying a fee or a margin. And evaluation is contractual: public campaigns are expected to report against defined measures with a pre-agreed baseline, not against impressions delivered. Accessibility of materials, publication in required languages, and clear separation between public information and anything that could be read as political promotion are compliance requirements with real consequences.
This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.
Who buys communications pr in Netherlands?
GlobalGov holds 245 communications pr records from 108 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Stichting Connekt (16 records); Ministerie van Defensie (7 records); Gemeente Breda (4 records); GÉANT Vereniging (4 records); Provincie Utrecht (4 records); Stichting Waternet (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 16% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Stichting Connekt | 16 | 6.5% |
| Ministerie van Defensie | 7 | 2.9% |
| Gemeente Breda | 4 | 1.6% |
| GÉANT Vereniging | 4 | 1.6% |
| Provincie Utrecht | 4 | 1.6% |
| Stichting Waternet | 4 | 1.6% |
What are communications pr contracts worth in Netherlands?
79 of the 245 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.1M and the largest single published value is $280.8M. By size, 6 under $100k, 32 between $100k and $1M, 27 between $1M and $10M, 14 above $10M. The remaining 166 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.
| Contract size | Records | Share of priced |
|---|---|---|
| under $100k | 6 | 7.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 32 | 41% |
| between $1M and $10M | 27 | 34% |
| above $10M | 14 | 18% |
How long do bidders get to respond to communications pr tenders in Netherlands?
Across the 62 Netherlands communications pr notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 46 days. A quarter of them allowed 40 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 56. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are communications pr tenders published in Netherlands?
Netherlands publishes about 8 notices a month in this category, 95 in the last twelve months. That is 206% more than the 31 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 166, spread across 60 separate months of activity since 25 January 2019. May is historically the busiest month. No new notice has been published in this category since 26 May 2026, 128 days ago, so treat the figures above as a record of the market rather than as this week's pipeline.
How does Netherlands compare with other communications pr markets?
Among the 29 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable communications pr market, Netherlands ranks 11th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (6,822 records against 245 here). Within Netherlands itself, communications pr is the 38th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Netherlands communications pr records on this page come from?
These 245 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (245). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.
Most recent Communications Pr tenders in Netherlands
None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical communications pr notice in Netherlands is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.
Netherlands – Telecommunications network – EuroQCI.Standardization Preparation: Open Specification
Netherlands – Architectural and related services – Architectenselectie Total Engineering - Nieuwbouw Noorderpoort School voor Kunst & Multimedia
Netherlands – Business and management consultancy services – Strategische IT diensten
Netherlands – Data-communications equipment – IP-Gateway market consultation
Netherlands – Business and management consultancy and related services – Media advies en media inkoop
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