Catalogue frameworks, refresh cycles and what happens to the old kit
ICT hardware is bought through catalogue frameworks far more often than through one-off competitions, because the products change faster than a procurement cycle. A framework fixes the supplier, the terms and a discount structure, and the catalogue is refreshed during the term as models are superseded. The consequence for bidders is that the competition is won on the mechanism -- discount off a published price list, the commitment to substitute equivalent or better as models retire -- rather than on the specification of any single device.
Minimum technical specifications are stated as a floor, not a target, and the terms that differentiate bids sit around the device. Warranty length and whether it is return-to-base or on-site with a next-business-day engineer, the availability of spares for the stated support period, and energy efficiency and environmental certification are all scored. For volume rollouts, buyers frequently require imaging with their own build, asset tagging and registration, staged delivery to named sites and installation at the desk rather than delivery to a loading bay.
The obligation bidders most often underprice is at the other end of the life cycle. Taking away displaced equipment, erasing or destroying the data on it to a recognised standard with certificates issued per asset, and disposing of or refurbishing it under electrical waste rules is normally the supplier's responsibility, and the residual value of what is collected is increasingly required to be credited back to the buyer rather than kept. A bid that prices the new hardware and not the removal of the old is incomplete against the specification it is answering.
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 ict equipment in Netherlands?
GlobalGov holds 1,233 ict equipment records from 563 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Contractables (28 records); Anculus B.V. (27 records); Ministerie van Defensie (9 records); Gemeente Tilburg (8 records); Belastingdienst, IUC Belastingdienst (6 records); Coöperatie Scholengroep Pompeblêd UA (6 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 6.8% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Contractables | 28 | 2.3% |
| Anculus B.V. | 27 | 2.2% |
| Ministerie van Defensie | 9 | 0.7% |
| Gemeente Tilburg | 8 | 0.6% |
| Belastingdienst, IUC Belastingdienst | 6 | 0.5% |
| Coöperatie Scholengroep Pompeblêd UA | 6 | 0.5% |
What are ict equipment contracts worth in Netherlands?
291 of the 1,233 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.3M and the largest single published value is $244.9M. By size, 20 under $100k, 103 between $100k and $1M, 126 between $1M and $10M, 42 above $10M. The remaining 942 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 | 20 | 6.9% |
| between $100k and $1M | 103 | 35% |
| between $1M and $10M | 126 | 43% |
| above $10M | 42 | 14% |
How long do bidders get to respond to ict equipment tenders in Netherlands?
Across the 222 Netherlands ict equipment notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 50 days. A quarter of them allowed 43 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 63. Not one of them closed within a fortnight of being published, so the window on this market is consistently workable.
How often are ict equipment tenders published in Netherlands?
Netherlands publishes about 25 notices a month in this category, 295 in the last twelve months. That is 152% more than the 117 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 606, spread across 64 separate months of activity since 24 May 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 ict equipment markets?
Among the 35 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable ict equipment market, Netherlands ranks 8th by number of records. The largest is Poland (5,761 records against 1,233 here). Within Netherlands itself, ict equipment is the 10th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Netherlands ict equipment records on this page come from?
These 1,233 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (1,233). 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 Ict Equipment tenders in Netherlands
No individual notice in this category currently has a public record page. The market figures above are computed over all 1,233 records GlobalGov holds for it.
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