Monitoring Evaluation Government Tenders in Netherlands

Independence, evaluation design and the data a verifier is expected to produce

Monitoring and evaluation is commissioned precisely because the buyer cannot mark its own work, so independence is a structural requirement rather than a preference. Firms that designed or delivered the programme being evaluated are normally excluded, the declaration covers affiliates and named individuals, and the contract usually protects the evaluator's right to report findings the commissioner does not want. A tender that lacks that protection is worth reading twice before bidding.

The technical bid is an evaluation design, and it is judged on whether the design can actually support the claims the commissioner wants to make. Bidders set out the questions, the counterfactual or comparison strategy, sampling, instruments, analysis and the limits of what attribution the design permits. Baseline availability usually determines what is possible: where no baseline was collected, an honest bid says which questions become unanswerable rather than promising a retrospective one.

Third-party monitoring and verification is a distinct sub-market with different requirements. Here the supplier is confirming that reported activity actually happened -- deliveries made, works built, people trained -- often in places the commissioner cannot safely visit. That needs field teams, sampling protocols that resist manipulation, geotagged and timestamped evidence, and a chain of custody for data that would survive challenge. Security, access negotiation and duty of care for field staff are priced obligations, and the reporting cycle is usually frequent and fixed.

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 monitoring evaluation in Netherlands?

GlobalGov holds 29 monitoring evaluation records from 15 distinct buying organisations in Netherlands. The most frequent publishers are Provincie Drenthe (3 records); Gemeente Utrecht (2 records); Provincie Gelderland (2 records); Gemeente De Ronde Venen (1 record); Gemeente Leiden (1 record); Gemeente Purmerend (1 record). Between them the 6 largest account for 34% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are monitoring evaluation contracts worth in Netherlands?

12 of the 29 records publish a contract value. The median is $1.0M and the largest single published value is $8.9M. By size, 1 under $100k, 4 between $100k and $1M, 7 between $1M and $10M. The remaining 17 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.

How long do bidders get to respond to monitoring evaluation tenders in Netherlands?

Across the 17 Netherlands monitoring evaluation 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 monitoring evaluation tenders published in Netherlands?

Netherlands publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 24 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 29, spread across 12 separate months of activity since 4 October 2023. 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 monitoring evaluation markets?

Among the 23 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable monitoring evaluation market, Netherlands ranks 16th by number of records. The largest is Colombia (1,681 records against 29 here). Within Netherlands itself, monitoring evaluation is the 61st largest of the 63 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the Netherlands monitoring evaluation records on this page come from?

These 29 records are collected from 1 official source: TED (29). 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 Monitoring Evaluation 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 monitoring evaluation notice in Netherlands is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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