Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job
Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.
The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.
Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.
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 maintenance & repair in Netherlands?
GlobalGov holds 300 maintenance & repair records from 209 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Gemeente Amsterdam, Ingenieursbureau (6 records); Gemeente Rotterdam (5 records); Gemeente Den Haag (4 records); Gemeente Goes (4 records); Gemeente Lansingerland (4 records); Ministerie van Defensie (4 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 9.0% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.
| Buying organisation | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Gemeente Amsterdam, Ingenieursbureau | 6 | 2.0% |
| Gemeente Rotterdam | 5 | 1.7% |
| Gemeente Den Haag | 4 | 1.3% |
| Gemeente Goes | 4 | 1.3% |
| Gemeente Lansingerland | 4 | 1.3% |
| Ministerie van Defensie | 4 | 1.3% |
What are maintenance & repair contracts worth in Netherlands?
84 of the 300 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.6M and the largest single published value is $163.6M. By size, 3 under $100k, 26 between $100k and $1M, 45 between $1M and $10M, 10 above $10M. The remaining 216 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 | 3 | 3.6% |
| between $100k and $1M | 26 | 31% |
| between $1M and $10M | 45 | 54% |
| above $10M | 10 | 12% |
How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in Netherlands?
Across the 94 Netherlands maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 39 days. A quarter of them allowed 21 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 49. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 13 (14%) closed within a fortnight of being published.
How often are maintenance & repair tenders published in Netherlands?
Netherlands publishes about 9 notices a month in this category, 105 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 111, spread across 61 separate months of activity since 16 June 2016. April is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 8 September 2026.
How does Netherlands compare with other maintenance & repair markets?
Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, Netherlands ranks 18th by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 300 here). Within Netherlands itself, maintenance & repair is the 35th largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.
Where do the Netherlands maintenance & repair records on this page come from?
These 300 records are collected from 2 official sources: TED (299), UN Global Marketplace (1). 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.
Open Maintenance & Repair tenders in Netherlands
Showing 10 of the 40 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the Netherlands market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.
Netherlands – Repair and maintenance services – Onderhoud Transportinstallaties
Netherlands – Planting and maintenance services of green areas – Extensief maaien gemeente Hoogeveen
Netherlands – Sports fields maintenance services – Onderhoud sportparken Tiel
Netherlands – Sports fields maintenance services – Onderhoud sport- en trapvelden gemeente Huizen
Netherlands – Repair and maintenance services of measuring, testing and checking apparatus – Marktconsultatie Preventief onderhoud Meet- en Regeltechniek
Netherlands – Maintenance services of public-lighting installations and traffic lights – Beheer en onderhoud OVL
Netherlands – Repair and maintenance services of metal containers – Onderhoud en keuringen van containers en flatracks
Netherlands – Repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment – UTV - Frequentie omvormers Emotron (DIG-19136)
Netherlands – Repair, maintenance and associated services related to roads and other equipment – Raamovereenkomst dagelijks onderhoud dienstverlening
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